“It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues… — Anohni Copy Share Image
We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If you can survive and won the battle over other millions of semen deposited alongside with you in your mothers womb, tell… — Godspower Oparaugo Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth… — Louise Lawrence Copy Share Image
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“You guys could handle this on your own. Why risk getting kicked out of your He-Man-Monster-Haters Club?" "Because we can't handle this… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, Night and day, to make you just like everybody… — Kate Swaffer Copy Share Image
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land.… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
There are legitimate concerns long term, in my view, about nuclear war and policy and stuff like that. But the world has… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“I've been told that there's a point in every soldier's life when he knows he's going to die. You expect it, of… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image