Belief Quote by Anonymous

“No matter how inflexibly the world was clamoring for war and heroism, honor and other outmoded ideals, no matter how remote and unlikely every…

— Hermann Hesse

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

— Teju Cole

“Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but “guts and glory.” Those…

— Boria Sax

The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have…

— Lydia M. Child

So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a…

— Harold Lasswell

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

— Nigel Gibson

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

— D. H. Lawrence

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of…

— John Fowles

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion…

— Howard Bloom

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic…

— Florence Nightingale

“It will be said that a rational person accepts the world as mixed of good and evil with decent satisfaction and decent endurance. But…

— G.K. Chesterton