To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For… — Chester Nez Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person… — William Powell Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game? [...]… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
“The 1944 pamphlet advising US troops on how to behave in wartime Britain, which is being re-published by the Imperial War Museum,… — Iain Hollingshead Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“My comments are directed at the system which was responsible for their poor performance, not at the officers concerned. I do not… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Pretend you’re on wartime rations, and eat only the humblest of home cooking for a week – you’ll want to plan your… — Annie Raser-Rowland Copy Share Image
I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was… — John Pople Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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