My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
