Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“The War Has Been Declared. Your Ally Been Ensnared. It Is Now Or It Is Never. Break The Code Or Die Forever.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it,… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing… — John Fowles The Magus Copy Share Image
We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When we are young, we yearn for battle. In the firelit halls we listen to the songs of heroes; how they broke… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict,… — Douglas T. Kenrick Copy Share Image
“The definition of war crimes had included and continues to include atrocities such as rape, abduction of women and girls for forced… — S.J. Friedman Copy Share Image
“We train for war and fight to win. I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“Congress, however, stiffened, cutting off appropriations for such bombing as of August 15, 1973. In November it overrode a presidential veto to… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
You teach combat, I guess.” Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?” Leo glanced at the massive… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
![“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This guy was killed fighting for you. Don't forget him--ever. Keep him in your mind when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. Don't think of him as the statistic…” quote by Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/bill-mauldin-28650_casualties_when-you-lose-a-friend-in-battle-you-hav_2871606.png)
![“[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/slavoj-i-ek-1738_accounts_t-aking-the-third-into-account-does-not_1994071.png)
