Quotes of: Cultural-war Keyword

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.

Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

Whoever fears nothingness is nothingness. Whoever has a problem is the problem Whoever cries is the cry. Whoever is depressed is depression. Whoever loves war is war. Whoever loves greed is greed. Whoever loves kindness will be it. Whoever devotes hi...

Jeremy Limn

Human pigeons there the dancers Gunfighters: metal-romancers This war needs no necromancer Iron shells its spell-commencer Journalists, writers: freelancer Donate words as ‘peace enhancer’ Where’s the question when war’s the answer? Mortality...

Munia Khan

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot of time without any female contact. He was part of the fellowship of men who went to war, and I think, really, that's what he's w...

Richard Armitage

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try...

Jane Fonda

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very e...

Lynne Reid Banks

To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reena...

Cary Fukunaga

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War...

Dmitry Medvedev

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technic...

George Tenet

When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just contin...

Arnon Goldfinger

He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in the future they saw war. To fight the war they wo...

Dalton Trumbo

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there...

Jeremy Rabkin