“I was fascinated by all the great generals, from Alexander the Great to George Patton. I hated war, but I loved the… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Everything was always a pretty up and down for me. It's always been an uphill battle as far as getting respect goes. — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone’s pick to be… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We’re strange people, soldiers stuck out in wars. We ain’t saying no laws in Washington. We ain’t walking on yon great lawns.… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I often wonder: What would happen in our world, if all of humanity's children threw a revolution of love & kindness… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He’d come to war to see abstractions become realities. Instead he’d seen the reverse. Everything was abstract now.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize… — James Franck Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Revenge, death, war, they all came from selfishness and pride and the only cure for that was love.” — Emma Lea Copy Share Image
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
“What if you were attacking a farm, and you saw me at one of the windows? What would you do?” “I would… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
You said this is suicide I say this is a war And I'm losing the battle Man down, man down, oh This… — Silent Copy Share Image
