History Quote by Brad Pitt Download Open image “Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.” — Brad Pitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Ideals Inspirational Love Peace Peaceful Violent
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. — James D. Watkins Copy Share Image
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the… — Andre Trocme Copy Share Image
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa,… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
No matter your religion, philosophy, or political beliefs, violence is not the way to achieve peace. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The scouts [in "Moneyball"] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Any love involves loss, and that's the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I liked turning 40. Maybe I had a crisis earlier or something. Maybe I had it in my 30s. One thing that sucks though… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image