Quotes about war
warfare behavior form
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. Jane Goodall
war winning brain
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
war mean violence
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
war fighting different
Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way.
war speech firsts
I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered. Jane Fonda
war age trying
In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.
war men white-man
We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.
war equal-pay people
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
war thinking rising
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
war europe achievement
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. Jan Peter Balkenende
war years target
Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency. Jan Schakowsky
war sides figures
The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take. Jamie Bell
war hands humanity
And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief. James Weldon Johnson
war luxury long
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. Juvenal
war luxury
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
war
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. Kerry Greenwood
war love-is force
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature. Camille Paglia
war legacy rage
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
warrior natural
I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
war fate world
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
war book quality
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
war media class
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.
warfare kind terror
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. Caleb Carr
war
Never start a war with something you can't talk to. C. J. Cherryh
war government world
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. C. L. R. James
war germany defeated
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
war
No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back. Catherynne M. Valente
war bridges black
Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
war space when-you-love-someone
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.
war reading winning
War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
war cutting cake
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
war father shadow
Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
warm freeze softness
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.