Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

John Maynard Keynes

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Karl Marlantes

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Nikki Sixx

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Robert E. Lee

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Jonny Greenwood

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Elihu Root

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

George McGovern

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Siegfried Sassoon

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

Zaha Hadid

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Mark Boal

I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.

Mackenzie Rosman

I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

Michelle Rodriguez

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

Rider Strong

Paul Bäumer: War isn't the way it looks back here.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Colonel Saito: Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!

The Bridge on the River Kwai

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Arlen Specter

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

Austin Stowell

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Jonathan Haidt