Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Jack Kemp

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

John Pomfret

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Louis Farrakhan

All war aims for impunity.

Michael Ignatieff

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

Martin Sheen

Killing is the payoff of war.

Morley Safer

War is just an effect, not a cause.

Marianne Williamson

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Richard Engel

War is over if you want it.

Yoko Ono

Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security. Sources are split in their assessment of the importance of nuclear weapons and the validity of traditional nuclear deterrenc...

Futures of War

All other trades are contained in that of war. Is that why war endures? No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not. That's your notion. The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Culpa Innata

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

City as Landscape

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The Closing of the American Mind

The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.

Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

The Ethics of Authenticity

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Foucault's Pendulum

...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

A Familiar Rain

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe