Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

Peter Kropotkin

War is the usual condition of Europe.

Peter Kropotkin

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

Peter Kropotkin

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Peter Kreeft

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

Peter Bergen

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

Peter Berg

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.

Pema Chodron

Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

Pema Chodron

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.

Pema Chodron

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Pema Chodron

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Pema Chodron

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Pema Chodron

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

Phil Donahue

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Peter Sellers

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

Peter Jacobson

Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."

Peter Jennings

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

Peter Carey

Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten

Pete Hegseth

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

Pete Hegseth

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Pete Hamill

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

Pete Hamill

The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.

Pearl Cleage

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

Piers Anthony

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

Phyllis Diller

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Phyllis Diller

I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.

Philip Pullman

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Philip Pullman

If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?

Philip Pullman

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

Rachel Carson

Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.