I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It… — Eugene Puryear Copy Share Image
“What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian king interrupted mid-speech to… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Never mind gas masks and fallout shelters in the event of biological warfare. Many New Yorkers move from place to place equipped… — Isabel Lopez Copy Share Image
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that this is equally true of men in the business world or any world. We all need someone with inner… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I… — Teresa R. Funke Copy Share Image
We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an...… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the… — Stephen Cambone Copy Share Image
We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the… — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because… — Joan Of Arc Copy Share Image
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Right… — Peter P. Mahoney Copy Share Image
“My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's… — Mia Kirshner Copy Share Image
Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation.… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
“[The Mexican war made three presidential candidates, Scott, Taylor and Pierce—and any number of aspirants for that high office. It made also… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The brain doesn’t like conflict and works hard to resolve it. This may be one reason why, when we gather with like-minded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated… — John Olver Copy Share Image
In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
As a planet, we are at risk of destruction (for example, gradually by the warming of the planet; or rapidly, by nuclear… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“I have seen things. I saw the great Mantis God of Africa fighting a creature from the primordial depths, a billion-year war… — Charlie Human Copy Share Image
“There is a major economic difference, however, between now and 1991, much less 1950. At the start of the Cold War in… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“as demanded in the famous UN Security Council Resolution 242 very shortly after the war ended. As readers probably know, a Security… — Ilan Pappé Copy Share Image
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“updates to the nation’s nuclear weapons policies represented just the third major shift in the Cold War; following Eisenhower’s “massive retaliation” and… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for… — Cynthia Dill Copy Share Image
“It was one thing for the country and much of the executive branch of government not to feel involved in the war,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars… — James Monroe Copy Share Image