“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Bathed in shades of violet, she comes in the dark. Power unrecognized, half human, half mar. Born in lightning, anointed in tears,… — Tracy Deebs Copy Share Image
For even the most nurturing, devoted, loving stepfather has, with a stepdaughter, an uphill battle. The relationship can test the mettle of… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They… — Commonweal Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“water. Another sailor rescued him. But Carson refused to sit onshore and recover. Instead he answered a bugler’s call for help on… — Patricia Brennan Demuth Copy Share Image
Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Opinions have no value, though the whole world is run on opinions. Opinions are limited. Your opinion, or my opinion, the opinions… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and should be tried at the Hague for international war crimes, the United… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will certainly be defeated. He who can prevail… — Cao Cao Copy Share Image
“A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Let's put an end to this European civil war, the existence of which we don't want to admit, and stop constantly looking… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were… — Manuel Moroun Copy Share Image
“You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair… — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
Besides, do you think you would have come if I’d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said,… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Our worries always come from our weaknesses...Strong people can always afford to be gentle, only the weak are intent on "GIVING UP… — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I will never say, 'support the troops.' I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, 'I don't support the… — Thomas Naughton Copy Share Image
But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“Vietnam had never been a true civil war. It was a war of conquest, initiated and perpetuated for more than two decades… — Andy Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I’m taking her to The Horny Goat, Agent St. James, not charging into battle. You and the rest of security are welcome… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The Chosun Dynasty adopted Confucianism in all walks of civil and personal life at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The nation’s… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image