All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming… — Questlove Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“Today, by contrast, students explode over imagined slights that are not even remotely in the same category as fighting for civil rights… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Central to this conquest of the world was the belief that military victory is peace. There was even one line from the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It's not real life ... I'm gonna… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur.… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang,… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I was head of the Cold Weather Warfare unit within the Special Boat Service. My job was to do extreme climbs, learn… — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“I told him about the Oedipal thing, about my father leaving when I was very young so I knew how to pine… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“The publication of Doctor Zhivago in the West in 1957 and the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Boris Pasternak… — Peter Finn Copy Share Image
I love the spirit of young girls and women and try to keep that spirit alive in my life and in my… — Kamala Lopez Copy Share Image
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“Collateral damage' is what it's called when innocent people are killed during war. It is expected and is irrelevant as long as… — John Lee Copy Share Image
For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war,… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“when I look at people fighting with ammunition and weapons of all kind I ponder within me;somehow as a cynic. Ammunition's and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you stop your creative process every time you think you need to cheer yourself up, or rid yourself of emotional conflicts,… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
“There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image