“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Star Wars introduced a new way for using the five screen speakers [in theaters]. By pushing left and right sound channels to… — Michael Rubin Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I just thought of something... If I really wanted to end my life,I should go to war. Theres a possible chance I'll… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
“The unnatural beast plummeted to the ground, vainly attempting to keep his entrails in and put out the fire that covered him.… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
“To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times he was knocked off… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth,… — Kirby Crow Copy Share Image
“These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Whenever a regular army finds itself engaged upon hostilities against irregular forces, or forces which in their armament, their organization, and their… — Charles Edward Callwell Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when… — George Blagden Copy Share Image
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
In a world where the latest app can sell for billions of dollars, there are plenty of ways to provide a minimum… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image