Enthusiasm Quote by Elihu Root

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness.…

— C. Wright Mills

The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not…

— Brendon Burchard

“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ……

— Doris Lessing

“Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government fierce partisanship…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the…

— Robert Fisk

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

— Judith Butler

People always make war when they say they love peace.

— Anonymous

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as…

— William Struse

How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It…

— Anne Waldman

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

— George Meade

“Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando