Quotes of: World-war-ii Keyword

[repeated line] Emperor Joseph II: Well, there it is.

Amadeus

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Mikhail Bakunin

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Max Weber

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Max Weber

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

H. Rap Brown

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

Nancy Pelosi

[Joffe], during a visit to Russia, complained to his KGB handler about the awful coffee. The KGB dude replied that it was really the Kremlin's answer to America's neutron bomb -- both killed people but left the building intact. "I was then that I fir...

The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, sl...

The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

[first lines] Professor X: The future: a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants, and the humans who dared to help them, fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path, destined to destroy ours...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

They say we live in hard times. They say the world is full of suffering and pain and ignorance and violence. But is that not better than helpless, grinned and beared mediocrity? Is this not the time of opportunity? When will we learn the importance o...

Vironika Tugaleva

Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor mor...

The 33 Strategies of War

...it is a different matter entirely to commit military resources to keep peace in such areas, where often no peace can be kept, or to build nations in our own image before they are ready for our freedoms - or even want them. The military need not do...

Making War to Keep Peace

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With ci...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

For these reasons they should not hesitate to exchange peace for war. If wise men remain quiet, while they are not injured, brave men abandon peace for war when they are injured, returning to an understanding on a favourable opportunity: in fact, the...

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

Regeneration

It’s still his favorite dish, though. War and rancid meat.

No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Ariel Sharon