Poet Quote by George Friedman Download Open image “The poets think about war more than the social scientists.” — George Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry Science Scientist Social Thinking War
“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war. — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is… — Louis Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure.” — David McDonald Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.” — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
