A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain… — William Petty Copy Share Image
That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“III. ATTACK BY STRATAGEM 1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The thing I wrote we ought to look to Canada for is the shorter sentences. I mean, the mess we're in here,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Be certain,” Catelyn told her son, “or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who,… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of love so intense it will cause men to kill dragons, to risk their lives on the edge… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don't like it. And usually war has some… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
“I can't help but stare at his swollen eye and bruised jaw. He looks like the god of war, damaged and scarred,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“In the war on terror, anyone may be designated the enemy. The president claims that only he may make this designation, and… — Joseph Margulies Copy Share Image
“Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
This is an issue just like 9-11... We didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My father was a policeman who fought in World War II. When he talked about 'journalists,' he meant Ernie Pyle. As far… — Steven L. Kent Copy Share Image
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I got to ride a motorbike, I got to do knife work, I got to do hand-to-hand combat, and they're the sort… — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, I think it's just as well that they are being phased out of the war effort, and that we are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It’s always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It’s always about one thing: which group of rich men… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“Governor Paetus...’ Lupus closed his eyes that we might not read the rage in them. ‘Governor Paetus has informed us that he… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image