Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

—Bertrand Russell

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I cannot help but wonder what it will be like for the young men and women wounded in Iraq. . . . For us, in 1968, it was the Bronx veterans hospital paraplegic ward, overcrowded, understaffed, rats on the ward, . . . urine bags overflowing onto the floor. It seemed more like a slum than a hospital. Paralyzed men lying in their own excrement, pushing call buttons for aides who never came, wondering how our government could spend so much money on the most lethal, technologically advanced weaponry to kill and maim human beings but not be able to take care of its own wounded when they came home. . . . Has any of it changed?

—Ron Kovic

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

—Kurt Vonnegut

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

—George Orwell

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

—King Charles V the Wise

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.

—George W. Bush, prior to the invasion of Iraq

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

—Mary Roberts Rinehart

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, . . . suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

—Philip Caputo

More about this quote

Tags:
war ignorance learning youth loss illusion
Permalink for this quote

There have been 5, 600 years of written history and 14, 600 wars have been recorded.

—James Hillman

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

—Major General Smedley Butler

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

—Antonio Porchia

More about this quote

Tags:
giving wealth interdependence exchange
Permalink for this quote

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

—D. H. Lawrence

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

—Kurt Vonnegut

More about this quote

Tags:
humanity fire
Permalink for this quote

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

—Mary Kay Blakely

More about this quote

Tags:
soul experience influence
Permalink for this quote

We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

—Mark Vonnegut

More about this quote

Tags:
purpose help reason
Permalink for this quote