Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law. Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli, or Christ, it's here. And the hour's late. And the war's begun. And ...

Fahrenheit 451

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring...

My War

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Jack Scalia

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Francois Fenelon

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

Joseph Rotblat

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clea...

Marcus Buckingham

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

A Coney Island of the Mind

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Elton John

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Joseph Addison

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem d...

Jerry Saltz

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Innocence

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.

The Pull

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

War and Peace

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Woody Harrelson

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

Ralph Peters

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

The Fallen

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living