Birth Quote by Andrei Platonov Download Open image “A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.” — Andrei Platonov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birth Given War
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other,… — John Fowles The Magus Copy Share
“Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationship between objects. Whether the objects love each other, need each other,… — John Fowles Copy Share
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge… — William Broyles, Jr Copy Share Image
“I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself superior to woman. In what the Americans call “a man’s world”. That is, a world governed by brute force, humourless arrogance, illusory prestige and primeval stupidity.’ He stared at the screen. ‘Men love war because it allows them… — John Fowles Copy Share
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In… — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?” — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
“Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
