Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical sense of a condition that everyone would like to elimi...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Maya Lin

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

King Hussein I

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilat...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.

Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor's Journal of the War in Afghanistan

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Steven Magee

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

Dennis Prager

It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always bee...

Hermann Boerhaave

The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it w...

Robert M. Pirsig

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

William Halsey

War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Henry A. Wallace

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Ursula K. Le Guin

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

James Dickey

There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.

Lowell Bergman