“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain… — John McCain Copy Share Image
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“In the way we regard our children, our spouses, neighbors, colleagues, and strangers, we choose to see others either as people like… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
“prepare for great battles. Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching you. Fight… — Maria Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered… — Dale A. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“As President Bush made the case for a wider war against Iraq in his State of the Union address on January 28,… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war,… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with… — David Willis McCullough Copy Share Image
“Up there in the sky. Don’t you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn’t always a… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
“Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the… — Mark Kermode Copy Share Image
“Could a man decide, 'I am right, and everyone else is wrong?' No evidence of a malfunction, he thought. I am not… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. .… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
One side thinks the president's request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
I learned to assemble a rifle in the dark and was trained as a sniper so that I could hit the center… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there,… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“In other words, (cultural) exchange is about teasing out points of conflict, among other things. (Cultural) Appropriation suggests a significant amount of… — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
This problem will knock on the doors of all of us, whether through uncontrolled and unmanageable migration flows, by means of diseases… — Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Copy Share Image
Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
The media that's having this hysterical reaction to James Mattis retiring is the same media in many cases, the same politicians in… — Stephen Miller Copy Share Image
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Yet also I should be sad,’ said Théoden. ‘For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image