[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
It's coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight. — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
“His angelic wings blackened when the dark fury assailed his mind. Summoning new strength from the unholy power that ravaged his soul,… — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“14 July 1942—Jerusalem - ...A magnificent parcel, covered in tape and seals, arrived for me from India. Inside were two pairs of… — Hermione Ranfurly Copy Share Image
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
“But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective… — David Jones Copy Share Image
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time. — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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