Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Leon Wieseltier

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

Max Brooks

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

M.M. Kaye

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Michael Leunig

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Richard Price

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Rick Springfield

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Stephen Ambrose

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

Steve Coogan

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.

Max Strom

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Michael Scott

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Matt Taibbi

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

Michel Templet

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Mark Twain

According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.

Nancy B. Brewer

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

Nathan Kress

I never saw Death before, and now I see That it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

Kural

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

Claudia Christian

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

Peter Diamandis

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Don Winslow