Men Quote by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Download Open image “man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.” — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Occupation War
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out… — Neil Lowe Copy Share Image
“[Norm said,] 'To all those who argue this war is a mistake, I'd like to point out that we've removed from power one of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Let’s honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.” — Steve Anderson Copy Share Image
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. — Art Hoppe Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young,… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib.… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all.… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image