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“Monsters cut children open and call it progress. Monsters murder entire groups of people without blinking but get upset when they have… — Ryan Graudin Copy Share Image
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
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“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“In the third century BC, General Xiang Yu sent his army across the Yangtze River to take on the Qin dynasty. While… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't live my life thinking about "if only." I just try to think positively about the future. We'll never know for… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“The French suffered 531,000 casualties (dead, wounded and captured) in those three months, roughly as many as in the eight months of… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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“Tis not the weapon you wield, Nor the armor you wear, It’s not the steed you mount into battle, Nor is it… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Life's a battle sometimes you're on the battlefield and sometimes you are the battle field you can't fight with your fist you've… — Olivia M Whitley Copy Share Image
After Joe passed away in the war, it seemed only natural that Jack and Bobby and then Teddy might pursue office as… — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
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All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
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It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“During World War II, a few years after Norma Jeane’s time in an orphanage, thousands of children were evacuated from the air… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
![“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his right scratching his head, his white hair gleaming in the lamplight. I knew that when he was studying he was thinking, but I did not know what about. Now I have aged…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/wendell-berry-236_civil-war_my-grandfather-returned-to-what-he-calle_1877401.jpg)
![“If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are…” quote by Carl von Clausewitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/carl-von-clausewitz-2060_bases_if-we-consider-the-actual-basis-of-this_1315760.jpg)
![“One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/230/noam-chomsky-42_bases_one-of-the-dangers-that-donald-trump-pos_2755620.jpg)
