Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In war everybody is a prisoner.

Ursula K. Le Guin

...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

U Thant

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

U Thant

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

U Thant

The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

Tyson Chandler

I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

Ty Cobb

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Vladimir Putin

We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should be aware of this. And it is the intelligentsia specifically that should keep this in mind and prevent society from radical steps and revolutions of all kinds. We've had enough of it. We've seen so many revolutions and wars. We need decades of calm and harmonious development.

Vladimir Putin

Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.

Vladimir Putin

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

Walt Kelly

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Vito Fossella

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

Walt Whitman

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

Walt Whitman

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

Walt Whitman

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Saul Alinsky

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means....

Saul Alinsky

Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.

Saul Bellow

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

Saul Bellow

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Sandra Day O'Connor

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Rose Wilder Lane

Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.

Roseanne Barr

I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.

Roseanne Barr

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

Roseanne Barr

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

Roseanne Barr

I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit.

Ronnie Hawkins

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Roland Barthes

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.