Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Mary Doria Russell

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Mary Catherine Bateson

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

Martin Amis

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Mark Sheppard

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

Mark Sheppard

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

Mark Sheppard

We are all riding on the same bus.

Mark Sheppard

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Andrew Niccol

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

Andrew Niccol

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Andrew Niccol

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Andrew Niccol

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Amy Lowell

This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

Amy Poehler

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

Ally Carter

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

Allen Tate

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....