It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The sitting prime minister, Jose Aznar, who had strongly backed the U.S.-led Iraq War, was unseated by a challenger who then pulled… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“They are a different breed of warriors. They don’t see war as an extension of politics; they see it as a life-and-death… — Dale Comstock Copy Share Image
Heroes and Refugees are both but products of war depending on how they responded to the situation. Challenges will always be around,… — Jaison Ndlovu Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Weir heard something different in the sounds. Once, during a period of calm, he sat on the firestep waiting for Stephen to… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“A balanced life isn’t to do as we please, but to learn to do what is right. A person that is truly… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah,… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
“Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others--and I am one of those--never give up. We fight and fight and fight.… — Yann Martel Life of Pi Copy Share Image
“Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?” “Thirteen years now.” “Thirteen years where you could have righted… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“We have a thousand machines for making war but none for making peace. We have computers and iPhone apps that can make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
“First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted… — Daniel Kofman Copy Share Image
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same… — Jim Gibbons Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
On Iraq, the president said he would end the war. Governor Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war.… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though,… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
