“Unfortunately, there's no getting around it: people have to work for their happiness. We go into battle every day, and we have… — Robin Schwarz Copy Share Image
“Desire! It carries us and crucifies us, delivers us every new day to a battlefield where, on the eve, the battle was… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The disposition, in any conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“The crisis isn’t over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because… — Ray Harryhausen Copy Share Image
The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
“Space Shuttle toilets have always been mounted on the floor, but you would not call them normal. The original shuttle toilet bowl… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“PRONUNCIATION GUIDE: Ailith: A-lith ("noble war"; "ascending, rising") Andriana: An-dree-ana, or Dree, for "Dri" ("warrior") Asher: Ash-er ("happy one") Azarel: Ah-zah-rell ("helper")… — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
“When the fight ends you can afford to relax. That’s the worst part. Winner or loser you have again eyes to see… — Florian Armas Copy Share Image
“Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer.… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers'… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“In a certain sense the country of ‘Russia’ as such did not exist: it had for centuries been an empire, whether in… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Acknowledgements! My thanks to Hollywood When you showed me John Rambo Stitching up his arm with no anaesthetic And giving them “a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in… — Anthony Swofford Copy Share Image
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
{_To work in a strange language, in which you are not efficient at all , reflects your courage and confidence ; but… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It… — Elliott Kay Copy Share Image
I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
