“Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!" "Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
“Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war.… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you.… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
“We know that psychology is tremendously important in war. It is a field unlimited in extent, to which every conscientious soldier should… — Adolf Von Schell Copy Share Image
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
“All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills,… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
“Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a… — George Alec Effinger Copy Share Image
The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“I’ve experienced a lot in my life. I’ve been in bloody battles. I’ve been with friends who were killed. I’ve seen terrible… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Be very careful, warns this tale, not to get too obsessed with the repetition of religious ritual just for its own sake.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it… — Yagyu Munenori Copy Share Image
“Why is your equation only for angels, Roger? Why can't we do something, down here? Couldn't there be an equation for us… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
You're so young, you're so damaged. What are you fighting for little one? Who are you against? A war against yourself inside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
It's not unusual for me to spend three or four days a week watching eight or 10 hours of fights. Even if… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
“Those years [as the war progressed] would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“The crossbow would develop into a highly formidable weapon over the course of the Hundred Years War, but at this stage of… — David Green Copy Share Image
“The whole business of the bourgeois and the class war was different from what we proles were told. These people were sure… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things.… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
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