Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened....

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Ich war zum ersten Mal in der Stadt der Lichter, und ich war endlich angetreten, dem Ruf zu folgen, den zu hören ich immer vorgeschützt hatte, um meinen Eltern meine Unsicherheit, meinen Freunden meine Unabkömmlichkeit, meinen Bekanntschaften mein...

Die Magier von Montparnasse

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I was conscripted during the war and even made to do coolie labor. The sneakers I now wear when I work in the fields are the ones the Army issued me. That was the first time in my life I had put such things on my feet, but they were surprisingly comf...

The Setting Sun

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly ...

Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

No weekends for the gods now. Wars flicker, earth licks its open sores, fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chance assassinations, no advance. Only man thinning out his own kind sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind swipe of the pruner and his kni...

Robert Lowell

[first title card] Title Card/Crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Title Card/Crawl: War. The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless Sith Lord, Count Dooku. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere. In a stunning...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

CIA Director McCone: The law says we've got to turn her over. William Stryker Sr.: The law applies to human beings. The same laws don't apply to mutants. They're too dangerous. In times like this, security is important than liberty. There is a war co...

X-Men: First Class

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Civilization and Its Discontents

There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.

Collide

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

Se uma planta não pode viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre. O mesmo ocorre com um homem.

Desobediência Civil

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

A brick is a baton, as it passes from a civilization in ruin to one on the rise. 


The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

George Edward Woodberry

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

James McGreevey

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

The Address Of Happiness

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

The Interpretation of Murder

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

The Nightlife: Paris