So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom… — Joseph Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They soon lost interest in Sofya. She was just one more prisoner -with no more idea of her destination than anyone else.… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
One of the tensions in XR are people who want to slow down and be strategic and then people who think it's… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
Choose your battles wisely. After all,life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that… — C Joybell C Copy Share Image
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Miss Blanche, having given through her tears a complete account of this event, assured me that, to maintain our own parental love… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“What a hell of a welcome. I’m sorry. But there’s so much still to do outside before the weather closes, and we… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to win the battle, Dana. I want to take the field, win the war. When I make love to… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
Stupid cancer... Some of us want a new house... A new car... A new mobile phone... To lose weight... But someone battling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have had many wars with other countries and when a prisoner comes back they get many benefits, they get a house,… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn't change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“With Britain distracted by the Napoleonic Wars, President Jefferson felt compelled to get there first—before his long-hated British, with their “bastard liberty,”… — Peter Stark Copy Share Image
If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“What started as a normal conversation quickly spiraled out of hand, and Neil had no idea how they went from the construction… — Nora Sakavic Copy Share Image
“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary increase in prison admissions due to parole and probation violations is due almost entirely to the War on Drugs. With… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do… — Nelly Copy Share Image
“For if there are no waving flags and marching songs at the barricades as Walter marches out with his little battalion, it… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image