It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
Thor: Loki, turn off the Tesseract or I will destroy it! Loki: You can't! There's no stopping it. There is only the war! Thor: So be it!
And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?
War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.
I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
