We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
By the time of Andi Parhamovich death, I had already grown skeptical of the Iraq war. What her death made me realize… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It is clear that the left is winning the battle of ideas with America's young people, and doing so with some decidedly… — Marybeth Hicks Copy Share Image
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The reliability of the United States was not a serious problem during the Cold War, because the Soviet threat provided a powerful… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because. No matter how pathetic the reason, its enough to start war. War will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“Phil Klay’s collection of 21st century war tales resonates in Redeployment (Penguin Press, March). For more commercial debuts, there is Naomi Wood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had medevacked so many women off the battlefield that I knew that it was a misnomer to say that women weren't… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized warfare: Even in warfare the indigenous maintain relationships with their… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more… — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Remember, our battles are spiritual battles. The people in your life aren't the source of your problems, the forces of darkness are.… — Jefroy Hanson Copy Share Image
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