When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.
Tal vez fui demasiado cuidadoso, demasiado protector, pero no podía soportar la idea de causarte dolor.
I like the idea of being with someone forever, being married to them.
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
It's like the idea of him is better than the of him.
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
