What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
In the best of circumstances, the Trump family business and questions about conflicts will be a burden to his presidency. There is… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace?… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at… — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
“You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. (From… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A hit to me is like a one-on-one battle; it's fun trying to win those, especially when the guy is bigger. — T. J. Oshie Copy Share Image
It's almost like the Monday Night Wars for me all over again. That's the kind of feeling I get with Reality of… — Booker T Copy Share Image
“All is fair in love and war. Yet love is more violent, has/shows no mercy, and pulls no punches.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War is not beautiful. Sometimes you see action sequences where battles seem organized. I know that from how the Vikings fought. It's… — Kristofer Hivju Copy Share Image
“People construct a public face in order to deal with the conflicts that rage inside them.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
So basically America, they are the Knights Templars of, and they've taken us into, perpetual war - that's their game. — Bez Copy Share Image
The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.” — David Weber Copy Share Image
