Answers Quote by Joe Haldeman

“Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of progress in…

— Howard Zinn

“The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing,…

— Margaret Atwood

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

“These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them…

— Milton Friedman

“why did it have to happen?'It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for millenniums, the question men were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing,…

— Margaret Atwood

“War, in short, concentrated the mind. It had proven possible to convert a whole country into a war machine around a war economy; why…

— Tony Judt

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead

“because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and their reason, had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread.”

— Tessa Dare