Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their...

Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World

They rode through the quiet streets. The rain had stopped and an early morning mist fell around them under the streetlights. Victor remembered that his ancestors had believed this was a magical time when the gods walked the earth, Götterdämmerung, ...

Vector a Modern Love Story

Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to...

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has e...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianit...

The Whole Person in a Broken World

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consci...

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the honour is done to Manchester's two greatest sons—t...

Henry Enfield Roscoe

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream...

Jack London

Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in wartime. We are not a barbaric state, and we do not en...

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

End the Fed

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

Empire of the Sun

A blanket could be used to warn your enemy that you are coming—and that you are warm. Where’s the cold war when you need it?


Brick

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

Cary Fukunaga

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

William Westmoreland

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Alone: The Second World War (Condensed) Series, Book 2

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

Acacia: The War with the Mein