Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. —Gregory Bateson More about this quote Tags: war religion science art sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war reality beauty religion facts death blood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Peace is only a hair's breadth away from war. —Carl Hilty More about this quote Tags: war peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale. —Henry C. Wright More about this quote Tags: war suffering viciousness gore Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find patriotism not only a refuge of scoundrels but of idiots and those who like to buy their thinking ready-made each morning in the vacuous newspapers. Every decade or so governments create wars and whip up a frenzy, so that we will not notice the shortcomings of our own side and will not question the assumptions of our society and demand more rational institutions and laws. —Marge Piercy More about this quote Tags: war news government patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. —Norman Mailer More about this quote Tags: war bad necessity reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. —John M. McHugh More about this quote Tags: war America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Tags: war humor America Russia bombing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: war humanity hate sin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. —Jacques Yves Cousteau More about this quote Tags: war love sea Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sports is like a war without the killing. —Ted Turner More about this quote Tags: war sports killing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. —Artemus Ward More about this quote Tags: war humor sacrifice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. —Plato More about this quote Tags: war fear enemies tyranny treaties Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email