Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

Donald Faison

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

Mark Hoppus

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Jon Krakauer

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Maria Montessori

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Paul Watson

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Ehud Olmert

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

James Meade

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

Rahm Emanuel

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Herman Wouk

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Jennifer Armintrout

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

Cofer Black

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

Ed Harris

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

John Mayer

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

Simon Schama

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Carl von Clausewitz

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Carl Levin

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

Glenn Greenwald

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

Doc Hastings

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

Gregory Stock