“Nevertheless this was life. I could wish that life was fair and that things were different, but this is what it was… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
Fortunately, America remains a robust democracy, where most individuals are not afraid to speak out. What we have done in Iraq has,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate… — Haj Amin al-Husseini Copy Share Image
“In October 1982, president Reagan officially announced his administration's war on drugs. At the time he declared this new war, less than… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As the Chair of the National Security Council Sub-Committee overseeing the CSSF and Prosperity Fund, I am proud of what it has… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love.… — Gerda Weissmann Klein Copy Share Image
Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“It has consistently been shown that when parents can contain their conflict, manage their own emotions, and do their job of parenting… — JoAnne Pedro-Carroll Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Our national jurisdictions are now bombarded by laws from outside, even though hardly any of these laws are concerned with the avoidance… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the… — David J. Schow Copy Share Image
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. We in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“She shuddered even more intensely. And calmed down. I’m alive, she thought, looking around. It’s not the end of the battle. Death… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Then as Anna listened another sound began to rise within the first. It began as a low keening, like the wind in… — Howard Bahr Copy Share Image
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions… — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
