Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

Tim Hetherington

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

William Odom

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Will Rogers

It is easier to wage war with wise enemies than be at peace with foolish friends.

Afghan

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

German

It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is “the biggest” of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance...

The Absolute at Large

We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to get into the workforce because of the world war, what did they start doing? They started having ...

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battl...

Nikola Tesla

You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of a lot of people I used to know … I'd like for them to be asked more often than they are, if your advice had been taken over the last 1...

Christopher Hitchens

Yuri Orlov: Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love....

Lord of War

We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth birthday, Papa began bringing up his time as a prisoner of war in Germany. Of course, I had always known that he had served...

Love

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor...

Letters and Autobiographical Writings

What's the point of doing anything if nobody's watching?

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

Gone with the Wind

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

Nick Clooney

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Siren's Lament and Other Stories

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

The People's Choice: A Novel

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt