Anti war Quote by Sharon Kay Penman Download Open image ““His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.”” — Sharon Kay Penman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anti war Failure Faith Kings Middle ages War
“fighting an endless war and getting nowhere, surrounded by those who found simply being in the war enough to justify their existence. He” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.” — Pindar Copy Share Image
“War diminished you. It chipped chunks from your soul, took the man and molded him into a darker shadow of his real self. But” — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“Every man must ceaselessly struggle upwards. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn?” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth… — Patricia O'Brien Copy Share Image
“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free.… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“I asked Simon if he’d ever feared that all our struggles, all our suffering might be in vain. Not a priest’s question, and he… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is particularly true… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road. — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Otherwise, I’d like nothing better than…conversing with you. You’re such a deep, penetrating conversationalist, after all,” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Richard grinned, very pleased with himself for having found a way to honor his mother, thwart his father, and serve God, while having a… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world,… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy. — Stefan Halper Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image