Conscientious objectors Quote by Marge Piercy Download Open image “If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.” — Marge Piercy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscientious objectors Ifs Play Sex War
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of genetic material,… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“There are always those who wish to sanitize war by portraying its grand and noble deeds-which sometimes occur-while drawing a veil over its shameless side. By its nature, war is harsh, brutal, and pitiless, and while it can call out the best in humankind, it can also awaken the darkest side of human nature, arousing in many participants a coldhearted… — John Ferling Copy Share
War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am. — Stephen Farrell Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes. — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
