Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

Stacey Snider

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Thomas Carlyle

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Timothy Noah

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf

China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.

Wesley Clark

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.

Will Durst

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

William Gilbert

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Walter Mosley

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) ...

Chaos & Cyber Culture

The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not ev...

The Cleaner of Chartres

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect—only if they happen to be ta...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is alw...

Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with our flimsy, rolled-up yoga mat...

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic