| Anton Chekhov | Any idiot can face a crisis,it`s day to day living that wears you out |
| Lord Acton | The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds,by force or fraud,in carrying elections |
| Count Dracula | Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier |
| Unknown | A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday |
| Admiral James D. Watkins | We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace |
| Thomas Jefferson | I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever |
| Unknown | A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal |
| A. K. Griffin | If it weren`t for lawyers, we wouldn`t need them |
| Justice Robert Jackson | It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from error,it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat,for it is momentary |
| Mark Couturier | It takes more courage to get out of a war than it does to get into one |
| Jean De La Bruyère | Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think |
| Sarah Bellum | Not only is war a form of legalized murder,but it is mass serial killing |
| Benjamin Disraeli | It destroys one`s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being |
| Vincent Van Gogh | In a painting I want to say something comforting |
| Bertrand Russell | If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. |
| Gian Vincenzo Gravina | A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company |
| Euripides | It`s not beauty but fine qualities,my girl,that keep a husband |
| A. J. P. Taylor | The great armies,accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace,carried the nations to war by their own weight |
| Lydia Sicher | [War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest,less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur |
| George Orwell | All the war-propaganda,all the screaming and lies and hatred,comes invariably from people who are not fighting |
| Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw | I feel the needthe need for speed! |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Drama is life with the dull bits cut out |
| George W. Bush | ,the role of the military is to fight and win war and,therefore,prevent war from happening in the first place |
| Anonymous German | A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples,an army of mourners,and an army of thieves |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I am scared easily,here is a list of my adrenaline,production: 1: small children,2: policemen,3: high places,4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one |
| Abraham Flexner | Probably,no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both |
| Ambrose Bierce | Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband |
| George McGovern | I`m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella,the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free |
| Robert Harbison | It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks |
| Rep. William Waters Boyce | We may extend our dominion over the whole continent,but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions |
| Swedish Proverb | Love me when I least deserve it,because that`s when I really need it |
| Woody Allen | Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. |
| Feodor Dostoevskij | Everything is permitted |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I`m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm |
| Nikita Krushchev | Life is short. Live it up |
| Murray Rothbard | It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power,in number,in pride,in absolute dominion over the economy and the society |
| Thomas Jefferson | Peace,commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none |
| Fred Reed | Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power |
| Kahlil Gibran | Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer |
| Ludwig von Mises | The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster |
| Rodrigue Tremblay | The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other,pretending to sell fire insurance |
| Doug Horton | Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others |
| Malcolm Forbes | Failure is success if we learn from it |
| Thomas Jefferson | I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man |
| Charles Evans Hughes | War should be made a crime,and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals |
| Colonel James A. Donovan,Marine Corps | Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism,which equates the national honor with military victory |
| James Madison | No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare |
| You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy | You are my ground and you are my rainbow |
| Voltaire | It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village |
| Rita Rudner | I love being married. It`s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life |
| Groucho Marx | I have had a perfectly wonderful evening,but this wasn`t it |
| Woody Allen | Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. |
| Jerry Hall | My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room,a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I`d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit |
| Thomas Jefferson | If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American,it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest |
| Hannah Arendt | Although tyranny,may successfully rule over foreign peoples,it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people |
| E. W. Howe | Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present |
| Donald Trump | Everything in life is luck |
| Georges Clemenceau | War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men |
| Albert Camus | We used to wonder where war lived,what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives,inside ourselves |
| William Ralph Inge | A man may build himself a throne of bayonets,but he cannot sit on it |
| Thomas Jefferson | A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit |
| Aristotle | Bashfulness is an ornament to youth,but a reproach to old age |
| Groucho Marx | Humor is reason gone mad |
| James Bovard | Freedom is whatever the president says it is,pending revision |
| Yoko Ono | Marriage is a gamble,let`s be honest |
| John Stuart Mill | Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so |
| Ellen Key | The worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being |
| Lauren Bacall | I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that |
| Albert Camus | In our society, any man who doesn`t cry at his mother`s funeral is liable to be condemned to death |
| Albert Einstein | He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,since for him the spinal cord would suffice |
| John C. Calhoun | It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty |
| Thucydides | It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered,while failure would leave us in an even worse position.. |
| Anthony J D`Angelo | Give more than take |
| Howard Zinn | Historically,the most terrible things--war,genocide and slavery--have resulted from obedience,not disobedience |
| Unknown | If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it |
| Cole Sear | I see dead people. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends |
| Robert A. Heinlein | It is a truism that almost any sect,cult,or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.. |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Disney has the best casting. If he doesn`t like an actor he just tears him up |
| C.L. Montague | Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant |
| Frank Chodorov | The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them |
| Butler Shaffer | Coercive practices that threaten our neighbor(s also threaten us |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | There`s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife |
| Michael Jordan | As athletes,we`re used to reacting quickly. Here,it`s `come,stop,come,stop.` There`s a lot of downtime. That`s the toughest part of the day |
| Bertrand Russell | All movements go too far. |
| Daniel Defoe | Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay |
| Frank Zappa | Art is making something out of nothing and selling it |
| Mark van Essen | Black, white, brown, yellow or even red, we piss with our pants down, and go naked to bed |
| Julia Ward Howe | The sword of murder is not the balance of justice |
| Ron Paul | Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Luck is everything,My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I`m fortunate to be a coward,to have a low threshold of fear,because a hero couldn`t make a good suspense film |
| Steel Magnolias | Smile, it enhances your face value. |
| Albert Camus | Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better |
| Lillian Hellman | Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth |
| Ray Prince | Do good by stealth |
| Bill Cosby | In order to succeed,your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure |
| Albert Einstein | A man should look for what is,and not for what he thinks should be. |
| Kehlog Albran | Even the best of friends cannot attend each other`s funeral |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | All diseases run into one, old age |
| Han Solo | May the Force be with you. |
| Michael Bergin | I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom |
| William Ernest Hocking | I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward,he will look forward with the work |
| John F. Kennedy | A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people |
| Jeremy Taylor | He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home,and broods a nest of sorrows |
| Marquis de Sade | Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers |
| Woody Allen | How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? |
| Barbara Bush | I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children,they just about throw up |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace |
| Tom Van Meurs | Democracies become dictatorships if governments do not listen to the voice of the people |
| Albert Einstein | How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business |
| Irving Kristol | Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions , it only guarantees equality of opportunity |
| Shoeless Joe Jackson | If you build it, he will come.[14] |
| Murray Rothbard | All government wars are unjust |
| Henny Youngman | The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret |
| Shirley MacLaine | Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends |
| Pope John Paul II | Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men |
| T. S. Eliot | I don`t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates |
| Buddha | In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true |
| Mark Twain | Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person |
| Oscar Wilde | America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between |
| Napoleon | America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it |
| Chris Hedges | The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment |
| Mark Twain | Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow |
| Herbert C. Hoover | It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation,the sorrow,that are the aftermath of war |
| Thomas Jefferson | The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,that I wish it to be always kept alive |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent,rebellion,and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots |
| Woody Allen | I can`t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. |
| Douglas Jerrold | Dress it as we may,huzza it,and sing swaggering songs about it,what is war,nine times out of ten,but murder in uniform |
| Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque | War has become a spectator sport for Americans |
| Benjamin Franklin | Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety |
| Ludwig von Mises | History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war,cooperation by coercion,unanimity by slaughtering dissidents. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets |
| André Roussin | I can resist everything except temptation |
| Dick Cheney | The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many |
| Thomas Fuller | Anger is one of the sinews of the soul |
| Marcus Aurelius | The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject |
| Pablo Picasso | It takes a long time to become young |
| Thomas Sowell | Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions,and to nurse real or imagined grievances |
| Josh Billings | As scarce as truth is,the supply has always been in excess of the demand |
| John Cory | War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares |
| William Appleman Williams | Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war |
| Will Rogers | I don`t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise |
| Ludwig von Mises | If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races,nations,or peoples,there can be no peace |
| Hermann Hesse | Every politician in the world is all for revolution,reason,and disarmament--but only in enemy countries,not in his own |
| George Orwell | The essential act of war is destruction,not necessarily of human lives,but of the products of human labor |
| Roger Ebert | Every great film should seem new every time you see it. |
| Nancy Astor | I married beneath me,all women do |
| Albert Einstein | An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. |
| Lao Tsu | Only fools seek power,and the greatest fools seek it through force |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern society,based as it is on the division of labor,can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace |
| General Douglas MacArthur | Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear,kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor,with the cry of grave national emergency |
| Lenny Bloom | Phony pretexts repeated often enough become real reasons. Things that,are not true become true in the public mind simply through endless repetition |
| H. L. Mencken | I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone |
| Olive Schreiner | It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well,than to kill ten thousand |
| Dale S. Mugford | When the largest industry in the world is no longer War,I will accept Darwin`s theory of Evolution |
| E. B. White | Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog;Few people are interested and the frog dies of it |
| Joseph Conrad | Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end |
| Hugo Black,Supreme Court Justice | Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.. |
| Tacitus | To plunder,to slaughter,to steal,these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert,they call it peace |
| John Milton | For what can war,but endless war,still breed |
| Alfred Adler | ,Violence as a way of gaining power,is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition,national honor [and] national security.. |
| Sigmund Freud | A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed,every such act of violence,as would disgrace the individual |
| Colin Powell | Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye |
| A. Cygni | It is odd, is it not, that a person`s worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society |
| Unknown | Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice |
| Peter Ueberroth | Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over,owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on |
| Erma Bombeck | Don`t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other |
| Scott Ritter | We say that we care about the war,but we dont even really know what were fighting for |
| John Burroughs | I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,all the walks I want to take,all the books I want to read,and all the friends I want to see |
| Thomas Jefferson | It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself |
| Gregory Bateson | Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it |
| George Eliot | Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love |
| Woody Allen | Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it`s all over much too soon. |
| Thomas Carlyle | War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle |
| Lord Byron | Wars a brain spattering windpipe splitting art |
| Albert Einstein | Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted |
| Anthony Robbins | Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship,unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It`s because they know changing will lead to the unknown,and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they`re already experiencing |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | In order to rally people,governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid,to hate,so we will rally behind them |
| Ramman Kenoun | Conflict is the criminals` paradise; it is the only time when killing is allowed,theft is tolerated,and rape is forgiven |
| Chevy Chase | A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic,so that came naturally to me |
| Pope Pius XII | You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war |
| James Madison | It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger,real or pretended,from abroad |
| Ludwig von Mises | Only one thing can conquer war--that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.. |
| George W. Bush | If we dont stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions,were going to have a serious problem coming down the road |
| Ingrid Bergman | Happiness is good health and a bad memory |
| John Cory | There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival |
| Sen. Hiram Johnson | The first casualty when war comes is the truth |
| Albert Einstein | All these primary impulses,not easily described in words,are the springs of man`s actions. |
| Justice Louis D. Brandeis | The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,well meaning but without understanding |
| M. Grundler | It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you |
| George Orwell | 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 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs |
| Frank Chodorov | The State acquires power,and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly,I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing |
| Boris Grushenko Woody Allen in "Love and Death" | The key here, I think, is to not think of death as an end. But, but, think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses. |
| Unknown | George Washington not only chopped down his father`s cherry tree, but he also admitted doing it. Now, do you know why his father didn`t punish him? Because George still had the axe in his hand |
| Unknown | "Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words |
| Tacitus | The worst crimes were dared by a few,willed by more and tolerated by all |
| Haldane | I`ve never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul |
| E. Merrill Root | Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well |
| Voltaire | I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it |
| James Madison | All men having power ought to be mistrusted |
| Simon Cameron | An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought |
| Buddha | I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done |
| Tom Daschle | This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war |
| Woody Allen | His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. |
| Dr. Ivan Eland | The best defense is no offense |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us,than the need for any external expansion of our power |
| George Edward Woodberry | Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure |
| Anthony Gregory | The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations |
| Luciano Pavarotti | Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail |
| George W. Bush | Our nation is somewhat sad,but were angry. Theres a certain level of blood lust,but we wont let it drive our reaction. Were steady,clear-eyed and patient,but pretty soon well have to start displaying scalps |
| Colonel James A. Donovan,Marine Corps | The dangerous patriot,is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory |
| Voltaire | It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong |
| Albert Einstein | God always takes the simplest way |
| Marquis de Sade | Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders |
| Woody Allen | As the poet said, `Only God can make a tree` -- probably because it`s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. |
| George Washington | The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure |
| Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque | I hate it when they say,He gave his life for his country. They dont die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them |
| Paul Valery | An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself |
| James Bond | Bond. James Bond. |
| Jess Lair | Joy is not in things, it is in us |
| Alfred E. Wiggam | A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time |
| Jonathan Larson | The opposite of war is not peace,it`s creation |
| Clarence Darrow | True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy |
| Albert Einstein | Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. |
| Napoleon Hill | War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man |
| Jim Garrison | I`m afraid,based on my own experience,that fascism will come to America in the name of national security |
| James Madison | A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Together we must learn how to compose difference,not with arms,but with intellect and decent purpose |
| Albert Einstein | The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one |
| Juan C. Mustelier | Freedom is to understand,and to be unbounded by that freedom |
| Hannah Arendt | The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error |
| Ronald Reagan | Government`s first duty is to protect the people,not run their lives |
| Albert Einstein | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds |
| Doug Horton | Be your own hero, it`s cheaper than a movie ticket |
| Blanche DuBois | I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. |
| Woody Allen | Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
| Lord Acton | Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands,all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control |
| Mark Twain | A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval |
| Harry Truman | Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better |
| Bette Davis | I`d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars,would sign over half to me,and guarantee that he`d be dead within a year |
| Thomas Chatterton | There is a time for all things,except marriage,my dear |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without |
| E. B. White | The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war |
| Buddha | A jug fills drop by drop |
| Lewis Grizzard | Instead of getting married again,I`m going to find a woman I don`t like and give her a house |
| Alfred Hitchcock | For me,the cinema is not a slice of life,but a piece of cake |
| J. B. Priestley | Comedy,we may say,is society protecting itself,with a smile |
| Sophocles | It is the merit of a general to impart good news,and to conceal the truth |
| Woody Allen | I took a speed reading course and read `War and Peace` in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. |
| Mark Twain | Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong,which course is patriotic and which isn`t |
| Helen Rowland | A husband is what is left of a lover,after the nerve has been extracted |
| Barbara Tuchman | War is the unfolding of miscalculations |
| Joan Crawford | No wire hangers, ever!"[26] |
| Bertrand Russell | No one gossips about other people`s secret virtues. |
| Thornton Wilder | Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she`s a householder |
| Mark Twain | Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul |
| Woodrow Wilson | To fight,you must be brutal and ruthless,and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.. |
| Alfred Hitchcock | In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man |
| Thomas Jefferson | The most successful war seldom pays for its losses |
| Sophia Bush | Marriage is not about age; it`s about finding the right person |
| Ron Paul | If you sacrifice liberty for security,you will lose both |
| Jose Narosky | In war,there are no unwounded soldiers |
| I. F. Stone | Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed |
| Ludwig von Mises | A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets |
| Lao Tzu | Violence,even well intentioned,always rebounds upon oneself |
| Juliana Hatfield | If you want to achieve things in life,you`ve just got to do them,and if you`re talented and smart,you`ll succeed |
| Evan Thomas | Wars should be over in three days or less,and the American people must be all for it from the outset |
| Marie Beyle | The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same |
| Albert Einstein | All religions,arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. |
| William Shakespeare | It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves |
| George Bernard Shaw | It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid |
| Albert Einstein | God may be subtle,but he isn`t plain mean |
| James Madison | The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home |
| Jimmy Buffett | If we couldn`t laugh, we`d all go insane |
| Frank Carson | I don`t think my wife likes me very much,when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance |
| Doug Horton | If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy , he`ll know what to do with it |
| Alexander Pope | They dream in courtship,but in wedlock wake |
| Sarah Bellum | If you support any offensive war,consider yourself just as culpable of murder as the most insane serial killer |
| Victor Hugo | The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ,Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.. |
| Beverly Sills | In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us |
| Bob Hope | I don`t feel old. I don`t feel anything till noon. That`s when it`s time for my nap |
| Woody Allen | Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. |
| Anna Frank | In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart |
| Jean Anouilh | Every man thinks god is on his side |
| David Epstein | I`m left on the right issues and right on what`s left. Now that`s an issue I left right in front of you to debate |
| Albert Einstein | A perfection of means,and confusion of aims,seems to be our main problem. |
| Unknown | Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity,and therefore,were not all those who sanctioned,engineered and conducted wars,war criminals |
| Noam Chomsky | There are many terrorist states in the world,but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism |
| George Bernard Shaw | A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth |
| George Orwell | During times of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act |
| Samuel Adams | How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words |
| George Eliot | A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions |
| Dr. Wayne Dyer | Conflict cannot survive without your participation |
| General Douglas MacArthur | In war,as it is waged now,with the enormous losses on both sides,both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide |
| Silas Bent | Harmony seldom makes a headline |
| Groucho Marx | Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse |
| Fred Allen | All I know about humor is that I don`t know anything about it |
| William James | Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact |
| Edmund Burke | Tyrants seldom want pretexts |
| Alexander Hamilton | Those who stand for nothing fall for anything |
| Jessamyn West | A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself |
| Groucho Marx | Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot |
| Satchel Paige | How old would you be if you didn`t know how old you are? |
| Leo Buscaglia | A single rose can be my garden,a single friend,my world |
| James Fallows | Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them |
| Michel de Montaigne | A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband |
| Robin Cook | There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | For every minute you remain angry,you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind |
| Walter Lippmann | It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most |
| Buddha | He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes |
| Charles de Secondat,baron de Montesquieu | A rational army would run away |
| Albert Camus | It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners |
| Michael Corleone from "The Godfather: Part III" | Politics and crime are the same thing |
| Charles V of France | Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball |
| Vera Brittain | Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible,one or the other must go |
| Buddha | Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace |
| Patricia Sun | War is a failure of human intelligence |
| Benjamin Franklin | A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang |
| Golda Meir | There`s no difference between one`s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It`s exactly the same thing,or even worse |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better |
| John Steinbeck | A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it |
| Abraham Lincoln | Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purposeand you allow him to make war at pleasure |
| H. L. Mencken | The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,all of them imaginary |
| Senator John Taylor | National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people |
| Unknown | A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do |
| James Baldwin | I love America more than any other country in the world and,exactly for this reason,I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually |
| Georges Clemenceau | It is far easier to make war than peace |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken,or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation |
| Colin Powell | Get mad,then get over it |
| Friedrich Hebbel,German poet and dramatist | Governments have never learned anything from history,or acted on principles deducted from it |
| Thomas Paine | Peace,which costs nothing,is attended with with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence |
| Congressman Ron Paul | Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms |
| Dr. Squid | In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king... and the one-eyed man with the high heels and the feather boa is queen |
| Thomas Jefferson | The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.. |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | War is the ultimate tool of politics |
| A. Philip Randolph | Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible |
| Jonathan Lockwood Huie | Friendship often leads to love,but lust seldom lead to friendship |
| Alfred Adler | Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy |
| Carl P. G. von Clausewitz | War is not an independent phenomenon,but the continuation of politics by different means |
| Woody Allen | It is impossible to experience one`s death objectively and still carry a tune. |
| Thomas della Peruta | Our children are not born to hate,they are raised to hate |
| Ramman Kenoun | A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government`s request is a national hero |
| Robert F. Kennedy | This much is clear: violence breeds violence,repression brings retaliation,and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul |
| Mark Twain | Be good and you will be lonesome |
| Bertrand Russell | I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn`t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. |
| Terence Trent D`Arby | Art is anything you can get away with |
| Unknown | Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it |
| Pope Benedict | The truth of Christ is the full and authentic response to that human desire for relationship,communion and meaning,which is reflected in the immense popularity of social networks |
| Thomas Jefferson | They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor,property,and lives of their people |
| Paul Jones | Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don`t |
| Ronald Reagan | Peace is not absence of conflict,it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means |
| Sam Ewing | Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America |
| Voltaire | I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left |
| Edward Abbey | Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative,but old as Babylon and evil as Hell |
| Arthur Hoppe | Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | Nothing good ever comes of violence |
| Donald Rumsfeld | There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it,and that`s just a fact |
| Arnold H. Glasow | A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down |
| Ruth Rendell | I`ve had two proposals since I`ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch,you know. I have a lot of money |
| Agatha Christie | One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one |
| Alfred Adler | It is always easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them |
| General Douglas MacArthur | Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it |
| Groucho Marx | I never forget a face,but in your case I`ll be glad to make an exception |
| Mahatma Gandhi | There is no way to peace. Peace is the way |
| François-August Rodin | I choose a block of marble and chop off everything I don`t need |
| Groucho Marx | I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury |
| John Stuart Mill | The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community,against his will,is to prevent harm to others. His own good,either physical or moral,is not sufficient warrant |
| Randolph Bourne | War is the Health of the State |
| Peter Ustinov | Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious |
| General Omar N. Bradley | War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization |
| Buddha | Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule |
| Albert Einstein | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex,It takes a touch of genius,and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. |
| André Roussin | If you love something, turn it loose. If it doesn`t come back, kill it! |
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last |
| Edward Everett | Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army |
| Bertrand Russell | The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. |
| Noam Chomsky | To some degree it matters who`s in office,but it matters more how much pressure they`re under from the public |
| Albert Einstein | Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. |
| Mencius | Friendship is one mind in two bodies |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle |
| Doug Horton | Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant |
| Rick DellaRatta | When we fill our souls up with creativity,artistry and intelligence ,we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Marriage is an adventure,like going to war |
| The 9/11 Commission Report | The Department of Defense is the behemoth,With an annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia,it is an empire |
| Thomas Mann | War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace |
| Brendan Behan | The terrorist is the one with the small bomb |
| Pat Buchanan | If we don`t stop behaving like the British Empire,we will end up like the British Empire |
| Ernest Hemingway | No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one |
| Max Lucade | Conflict is inevitable,but combat is optional |
| Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan | How lucky I am to have someone that makes saying goodbye so hard |
| Pam Brown | A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small,silly presents every so often,just to save it from drying out completely |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Violence can only be concealed by a lie,and the lie can only be maintained by violence |
| Albert Einstein | Everyone should be respected as an individual,but no one idolized |
| Ella Baker | My theory is,strong people don`t need strong leaders |
| H. H. Munro | He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death |
| Michel de Montaigne | If there is such a thing as a good marriage,it is because it resembles friendship rather than love |
| Woody Allen | It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one`s hat keeps blowing off. |
| Rodney Dangerfield | It`s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips,yet she won`t drink from my glass |
| Ralph Bunche | There are no warlike people--just warlike leaders |
| K. W. Ibrahim | The war on terrorism is akin to the war on drugsunwinable,unless you kill everyoneor address the root causes |
| Michael Gillespie | Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power |
| Senator Barbara Boxer | Iraq was a war of choice,not necessity |
| H. L. Mencken | Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn`t they`d be married too |
| Buddha | Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence |
| Alfred Adler | War is organized murder and torture against our brothers |
| Mark Twain | Look at you in war,There has never been a just one,never an honorable one,on the part of the instigator of the war |
| Mignon McLaughlin | If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married,and another list of the reasons for their divorce,you`d have a hell of a lot of overlapping |
| Mahatma Gandhi | I object to violence because when it appears to do good,the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent |
| John F. Kennedy | Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes,can no longer be of concern to great powers alone |
| Don Marquis | Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough |
| Willard Gaylin | Expressing anger is a form of public littering |
| Simone Weil | What a country calls its vital,interests are not things that help its people live,but things that help it make war |
| General Smedley Butler | There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket |
| Ludwig von Mises | War can really cause no economic boom,at least not directly,since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods |
| Hannah Arendt | The practice of violence,like all action,changes the world,but the most probable change is a more violent world |
| Groucho Marx | From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down,I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it |
| Woody Allen | I am at two with nature. |
| Henry Louis Mencken | A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it |
| Patricia Sun | [War] comes from an immature style of thinking where creativity and overview is scarce |
| David Friedman | The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations |
| Woody Allen | If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. |
| Ronald Reagan | People do not make wars; governments do |
| Ludwig von Mises | Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism |
| Molly Ivins | Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences |
| Rocky Balboa | Yo, Adrian! |
| Ronald Reagan | The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor |
| General Smedley Butler USMC,Ret. | My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military |
| G. K. Chesterton | A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over,is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen |
| Pedro Calderon de la Barca | When love is not madness,it is not love |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | 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 |
| Bertrand Russell | War does not determine who is right,only who is left |
| Katherine Cebrian | I don`t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking |
| William Graham Sumner | If [America] becomes militant,it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable |
| Buddha | Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship |
| Bertrand Russell | Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Even if we are spared destruction by war,our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction |
| Mark Twain | Man is the only animal that blushes , or needs to |
| Alice Duer Miller | Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one`s own despised and unwanted feelings |
| Albert Einstein | As far as I`m concerned,I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. |
| Pablo Picasso | Action is the foundational key to all success |
| Gary Wills | Only the winners decide what were war crimes |
| Samuel Butler | All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it |
| Bertrand Russell | The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. |
| Sydney J. Harris | Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage |
| Albert Einstein | The world is a dangerous place,not because of those who do evil,but because of those who look on and do nothing |
| Marcus Aurelius | Look back over the past,with its changing empires that rose and fell,and you can foresee the future,too |
| Barbara Bush | Why should we hear about body bags,and deaths,I mean,it`s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that |
| Mary Schmich | Like many women my age,I am 28 years old |
| Ludwig von Mises | The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments |
| Benjamin Franklin | When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration |
| Bertrand Russell | Either man will abolish war,or war will abolish man |
| Edmond Jules Goncourt | A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world |
| Robert Higgs | ,History shows that ,(people can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda,bogus crises,or other political trickery |
| Bertrand Russell | Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. |
| William Pitt | Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves |
| Bertrand Russell | Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. |
| Mary Astell | But,alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? |
| Ramman Kenoun | Humanity is quite a unique species,since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out |
| Olavo de Cavarlho | Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they`re part of the crime |
| Groucho Marx | I won`t belong to any organization that would have me as a member |
| Oscar Wilde | Who,being loved,is poor |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country |
| Johan Christoph Schiller | A merely fallen enemy may rise again,but the reconciled one is truly vanquished |
| Leo Tolstoy | In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments,the governments alone,independent of the interests of the people,to whom war is always pernicious even when successful |
| Elbert Hubbard | An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you |
| Joseph A. Schumpeter | Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war |
| David Hume | The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.. |
| General Smedley Butler | War is just a racket,I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else |
| Stephen Fry | I feel sorry for straight men. The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man,which is what they want |
| George Jean Nathan | Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote |
| General Omar N. Bradley | Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants |
| David Frost | Don`t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in,and it will come naturally |
| Albert Einstein | Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. |
| Alfred Adler | To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew |
| James Madison | The power to declare war,including the power of judging the causes of war,is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature |
| Theodore Roosevelt | It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth,whether about the president or anyone else |
| George W. Bush | If this were a dictatorship,it`d be a heck of a lot easier,just so long as I`m the dictator |
| William Wallace | Every man dies. Not every man really lives |
| Daniel Dennett | Hard reality has a way of cramping your style |
| Ron Paul | Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us |
| Erich Fromm | Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe |
| Thomas Paine | That there are men in all countries who get their living by war,and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.. |
| Dr. Squid | He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor |
| Tom Stoppard | It`s better to be quotable than to be honest |
| Groucho Marx | Either he`s dead or my watch has stopped |
| Francis Bacon | I will never be an old man. To me,old age is always 15 years older than I am |
| Marcus Aurelius | How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it |
| Simone de Beauvoir | If you live long enough,you`ll see that every victory turns into a defeat |
| Simone Weil | The great error of nearly all studies of war,has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies,when it is an act of interior politics.. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead |
| Buddha | Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely |
| Woody Allen | Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
| Annie Hall | La-dee-da, la-dee-da. |
| Karl Kraus | War: first,one hopes to win,in the end,one is surprised that everyone has lost |
| Euripides | God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property,not seize it |
| David Brinkley | A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him |
| Samuel Goldwyn | A verbal contract isn`t worth the paper it`s written on |
| Groucho Marx | I don`t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members |
| Thomas Paine | He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself |
| Anne Louise Germaine de Stael | Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty |
| General Douglas MacArthur | It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | In politics,nothing happens by accident. If it happens,you can bet it was planned that way |
| Alexander Pope | O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name |
| Ludwig von Mises | The root of the evil is not the construction of new,more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest |
| Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello | Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico? |
| Jerry Maguire | You had me at hello. |
| Henry Kissinger | What political leaders decide,intelligence services tend to seek to justify |
| EdgarA. Shoaff | A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern |
| Terry Liberty Parker | When people have friends and customers in other lands,they tend to take a dim view of their government dropping bombs on them |
| Ashleigh Brilliant | I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it |
| Brent Davis | Peace is constructed,not fought for |
| Harry Truman | It`s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it`s a depression when you lose yours |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle,your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos |
| Bertrand Russell | Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule |
| Mother Teresa | Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless |
| Mark Twain | I don`t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way |
| James Bond | A martini. Shaken, not stirred. |
| Robert E. Lee | The war,was an unnecessary condition of affairs,and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides |
| John V. Lindsay | Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order |
| Samuel Goldwyn | A hospital is no place to be sick |
| Daisaku Ikeda | Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level,in the depths of their very lives |
| Clifton Paul Fadiman | A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke,and that the joke is oneself |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | War remains the decisive human failure |
| James Madison | War,should only be declared by the authority of the people,instead of the government which is to reap its fruits |
| David Herbert Lawrence | Life is ours to be spent, not saved |
| Dorothy Thompson | Peace,is the product of Faith,Strength,Energy,Will,Sympathy,Justice,Imagination,and the triumph of principle |
| Bob Wells | For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Where ever you go, there you are. |
| Woody Allen | My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. |
| George Orwell | War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it |
| Henk Middelraad | War brings out the most negative emotional human responses on both sides |
| Robert Anton Wilson | Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves |
| Lydia Sicher | Wars are inevitable,as long as we believe that wars are inevitable. The moment we don`t believe it anymore it is not inevitable |
| Horace | Anger is a short madness |
| Henri Barbusse | Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide |
| Mahatma Gandhi | An eye for an eye makes us all blind |
| John Locke | All mankind,being all equal and independent,no one ought to harm another in his life,health,liberty or possessions |
| Eric Alterman | History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse |
| Alan Watts | Wars based on principle are far more destructive,the attacker will not destroy that which he is after |
| Herodotus | In peace,sons bury their fathers; in war,fathers bury their sons |
| Ramman Kenoun | It is frightening how the actions of a single leader can have such drastic effects on the prestige of an entire nation |
| Leslie Richard Groves | People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken what needs to be outlawed is war |
| L.L. Castetter | The greatest protection against war is a well educated populace |
| Mark Twain | Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured |
| Hugo Black,Supreme Court Justice | Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth |
| Bernard M. Baruch | Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction |
| Groucho Marx | I`d never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member |
| Kin Hubbard | Peace has its victories no less than war,but it doesn`t have as many monuments to unveil |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind |
| Thomas Jefferson | War,is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer |
| George Orwell | Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows |
| Jeanette Winterson | After every ``victory`` you have more enemies |
| William Ramsey Clark | The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy |
| Ramman Kenoun | Patriotism lies not in blind obedience to authority,but in the desire to search for the truth |
| Woody Allen | The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5`7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone. |
| Salon Gahlin,Swedish author | The fact that certain planets are uninhabited may very well derive from the fact that their nuclear scientist are more advanced than ours |
| Abba Eban | History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives |
| Det. Robert Thorn | Soylent Green is people! |
| Albert Einstein | Before God we are all equally wise,and equally foolish. |
| David Borenstein | Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk |
| Henry Kissinger | It`s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true |
| Bertrand Russell | It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won`t go. |
| Pope John Paul II | Humanity should question itself,once more,about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.. |
| Benjamin Harrison | We Americans have no commission from God to police the world |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | The next war ,may well bury Western civilization forever |
| John F. Kennedy | War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today |
| Rita Rudner | My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn`t want him to |
| George H. W. Bush | I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the shots,Im not going to rush to send somebody elses kids into a war |
| Mark Twain | Few things are harder to put up with than a good example |
| Ronald Reagan | Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will |
| Unknown | A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | This world of ours,must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate,and be,instead,a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect |
| St. Jerome | Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night |
| Thomas Jefferson | When the people fear their government,there is tyranny; when the government fears the people,there is liberty |
| James Reston | In any war,the first casualty is common sense,and the second is free and open discussion |
| Bertrand Russell | It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. |
| John Cory | War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed |
| Pope Paul VI | In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day`s long |
| Knut Hamsun | In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past,we have arrived |
| Albert Einstein | A table,a chair,a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? |
| Pentagon Official unnamed | If we let people see that kind of thing,there would never again be any war |
| Lewis Mumford | War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.. |
| Charles de Secondat,baron de Montesquieu | The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | I have condemned any organizer of war,regardless of his rank or nationality |
| H.L. Menken | When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression |
| Unknown | Love your enemies: they`ll go crazy trying to figure out what you`re up to |
| Charles De Gaulle | How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese |
| Doug Larson | A pun is the lowest form of humor,unless you thought of it yourself |
| Eddie Cantor | A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers |
| Groucho Marx | I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set,I go into the other room and read a book |
| Fredric Bastiat | When goods don`t cross borders,soldiers will |
| George W. Bush | Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don`t attack each other. Free nations don`t develop weapons of mass destruction |
| Rev. William Sloane Coffin | Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race,Let us resolve to be patriots always,nationalists never |
| Mark Twain:Man is the only animal that blushes,or needs to | Mark Twain:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education |
| Mahatma Gandhi | What difference does it make to the dead,the orphans,and the homeless,whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people |
| James Wolcott | Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Every nation ridicules other nations , and all are right |
| Woody Allen | I don`t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | I hate war for its consequences,for the lies it lives on and propagates,for the undying hatreds it arouses.. |
| Woody Allen | I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. |
| Gone With The Wind | After all, tomorrow is another day! |
| Alfred Adler | War is not the continuation of politics with different means,it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man |
| Lee Hawkins | All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Those who do not move,do not notice their chains |
| W. Somerset Maugham | A man marries to have a home,but also because he doesn`t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing |
| William Ellery Channing | The cry has been that when war is declared,all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated |
| Goethe | There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance |
| Loretta Castorini | Snap out of it! |
| Ramman Kenoun | A tyrant has succeeded in his search for absolute power when his own people fear to question his actions |
| J. Paul Getty | Formula for success: rise early,work hard,strike oil |
| Buddha | I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act |
| Jeanette Rankin | You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake |
| Finley Peter Dunne | The only good husbands stay bachelors: They`re too considerate to get married |
| Groucho Marx | A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke |
| Henry Ward Beecher | A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It`s jolted by every pebble on the road |
| Ecclesiastes 9:18 | Wisdom is better than weapons of war |
| Chaz Bufe | War,n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a presidents popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Anger,if not restrained,is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it |
| Calvin Coolidge | No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace,or ensure it of victory in time of war |
| Groucho Marx | I intend to live forever,or die trying |
| Sun Tzu | All warfare is based on deception |
| Abraham Lincoln | Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other |
| Arthur Somers Roche | Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained |
| Yes,Prime Minister UK TV Show | Politicians` Logic: Something must be done,this is something,therefore we must do it |
| W. C. Fields | If at first you don`t succeed,try,try again. Then quit. There`s no point in being a damn fool about it |
| George Washington | Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness |
| Ramman Kenoun | The only antidote to the poison of war is the public`s courage to disagree with their leader |
| Gregory Clark | Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate |
| Unknown | Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world |
| Thomas Jefferson | This I hope will be the age of experiments in government,and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,not of mere force |
| Anthony J D`Angelo | Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find |
| George Bernard Shaw | Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse,and pretense of reluctance |
| Ian Buckley | Suspicion must always fall on those who attempt to silence their opponents |
| Pablo Picasso | Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up |
| General Omar N. Bradley | We know more about war than we know about peace,more about killing than we know about living |
| Sigmund Freud | Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.. |
| Fulton J. Sheen | Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it |
| Roman Podabedov Russian anti-tank gunner | I learned nothing from war. War is not an activity for human beings; war is for criminalsrape,robbery and murder |
| Michael Servetus | To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine,but to kill a man |
| Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls | Love one another but make not a bond of love |
| Unknown | Beat your own and others will fear you |
| Gene Fowler | He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it`s bottled |
| Joseph Cimino | An excuse is the mark of a moral coward |
| Buddha | All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him |
| Woody Allen | I`m astounded by people who want to `know` the universe when it`s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. |
| Bertrand Russell | Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. |
| Lt. General William E. Odom,US Army Ret., | Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few |
| Albert Einstein | It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder |
| Kahlil Gibran | He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty |
| Adolf Hitler | By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell , and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed |
| Albert Einstein | Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love |
| Henry Louis Mencken | Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard |
| Unknown | Don`t tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective |
| Unknown | Don`t do whatever you like , like whatever you do |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Blondes make the best victims. They`re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints |
| Carl P. G. von Clausewitz | Politics is the womb in which war develops |
| Voltaire | All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets |
| Mike Myers Austin Powers: Goldmember | You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater |
| Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe | Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel,national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant |
| Unknown | In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it |
| Dorothy Thompson | It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives |
| Gloria Steinem | A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle |
| Karen Horney | Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist |
| H.L. Mencken | Under democracy,one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed,and are right |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means |
| U Thant ,Burmese UN Secretary General | In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished,There is only a loser,and the loser is mankind |
| Louise Beal | Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood |
| Sherlock Holmes | Elementary, my dear Watson.[23] |
| Unknown | A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she`d look stout in a fur coat |
| Chris Hedges | In war,we always deform ourselves,our essence |
| H. G. Wells | A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be,surer of the noose than a private homicide |
| Kahlil Gibran | Where is the justice of political power if it,marches upon neighboring lands,killing thousands and pillaging the very hills |
| Bertrand Russell | Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |
| James Madison | The executive has no right,in any case,to decide the question,whether there is or is not cause for declaring war |
| Agatha Christie | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country |
| John F. Kennedy | The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution |
| Elizabeth Kenny | He who angers you conquers you |
| Oscar Levant | Happiness isn`t something you experience; it`s something you remember |
| Ernest Hemingway | They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war,there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason |
| J. Ramsay MacDonald | We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament |
| Moshe Dayan | If you want to make peace,you don`t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies |
| Ramman Kenoun | The soldier`s main enemy is not the opposing soldier,but his own commander |
| John F. Kennedy | Peace is a daily,a weekly,a monthly process,gradually changing opinions,slowly eroding old barriers,quietly building new structures |
| George Washington | My first wish is to see this plague of mankind,war,banished from the earth |
| Ambrose Bierce | Academe,n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy,n.: A modern school where football is taught |
| Havelock Ellis | Mankind is becoming a single unit,and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide |
| Frank Chodorov | All wars come to an end,at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates |
| Frank Kent | The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people |
| Harry Callahan | Go ahead, make my day |
| Quintus Tullius Cicero | During war,the laws are silent |
| George Washington | Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | All diseases run into one,old age |
| Cyril Connolly | The true index of a man`s character is the health of his wife |
| I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,but for what you are making of me | I love you not only for what you are,but for what I am when I am with you |
| Thomas Jefferson | Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it |
| Ludwig von Mises | War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings |
| Ramman Kenoun | It`s truly ironic how self-proclaimed `patriots` have a tendency to support those who seek to undermine their country |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | All truth passes through three stages. First,it is ridiculed. Second,it is violently opposed. Third,it is accepted as being self-evident |
| Buddha | Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind |
| Will Rogers | An ignorant person is one who doesn`t know what you have just found out |
| Mark Twain | A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read |
| C. S. Lewis | How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete |
| Nuremburg War Tribunal | To initiate a war of aggression,is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole |
| James Madison | The constitution supposes,what the History of all Governments demonstrates,that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,and most prone to it |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains |
| Clyde Barrow | We rob banks. |
| Reese Witherspoon | I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs,and don`t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out |
| Sharon Stone | Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship |
| Groucho Marx | I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent,as written in our contract |
| Andre Maurois | Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form |
| General William Westmoreland | Vietnam was the first war ever fought without censorship. Without censorship,things can get terribly confused in the public mind |
| Tacitus | The more corrupt the state,the more numerous the laws |
| Ludwig von Mises | Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being |
| Jean Kerr | Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it,you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left |
| Albert Camus | Alas,after a certain age every man is responsible for his face |
| Oscar Wilde | How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being |
| George W. Bush | Victory means exit strategy,and it`s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is |
| Thucydides | I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule,only those who show an even greater readiness to submit |
| George W. Bush | I just want you to know that,when we talk about war,we`re really talking about peace |
| H. H. Munro | A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation |
| Dave Bowman | Open the pod bay doors, HAL. |
| Ramman Kenoun | War may be only temporary,but its toll remains permanently |
| John Adams | Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war |
| Herbert V. Prochnow | A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war |
| Thomas Jefferson | I hope our wisdom will grow with our power,and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be |
| Voltaire | I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it |
| Michael Parenti | The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments |
| Hugh Sidey | A sense of humor,is needed armor. Joy in one`s heart and some laughter on one`s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life |
| Olaf Stapledon | A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners |
| Edmund Burke | I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people |
| E. M. Forster | Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards |
| Charley Reese | The politicians in this world,have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes |
| Groucho Marx | I,not events,have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead,tomorrow hasn`t arrived yet. I have just one day,today,and I`m going to be happy in it |
| Albert Einstein | Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. |
| John Tudor | A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | When marrying,ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory |
| Noam Chomsky | Everybody`s worried about stopping terrorism. Well,there`s a really easy way: stop participating in it |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood |
| Flannery O`Connor | Everywhere I go, I`m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don`t stifle enough of them |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Sharpness is a state of mind. |
| Groucho Marx | I`m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it`s not raining |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | A man`s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,whether sought or unsought,by the military-industrial complex |
| Caskie Stinnett | A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip |
| Socrates | All wars are fought for money |
| Benjamin Franklin | Wars are not paid for in wartime,the bill comes later |
| Martin Luther King | All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality |
| Rick Blaine | Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. |
| Bennett Cerf | The Atomic Age is here to stay--but are we |
| Unknown | Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created |
| Marquis de Sade | What is more immoral than war |
| K. K. V. Casey | Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired |
| Katharine Hepburn | If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one,go ahead,get married |
| Ambrose Bierce | Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage |
| George W. Bush | We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression,while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace |
| John F. Kennedy | Mankind must put an end to war,or war will put an end to mankind |
| Charlie Chaplin | In the end, everything is a gag |
| Mignon McLaughlin | A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles |
| Dale Carnegie | Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Age considers; youth ventures |
| Albert Einstein | Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater |
| General Stonewall Jackson | It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils |
| Michael Corleone | Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.[19] |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | What is morally wrong can never be advantageous,even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage |
| Aristotle | Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies |
| Thomas Jefferson | War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies,instead of indemnifying losses |
| Salvador Dalì | It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself |
| Thomas Jefferson | Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects,and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted |
| Ronald Reagan | Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing |
| Unknown | Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth , communism is the equal distribution of poverty |
| Buddha | In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves |
| Yogi Berra | Even Napoleon had his Watergate |
| Abraham Lincoln | Force is all-conquering,but its victories are short-lived |
| Albert Einstein | I am a deeply religious nonbeliever,this is a somewhat new kind of religion |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | When people speak to you about a preventive war,you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience,I have come to hate war |
| Ambrose Bierce | Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain |
| Emily Dickinson | I felt it shelter to speak to you |
| Joseph de Maistre | Every nation has the government it deserves |
| Albert Einstein | He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,is as good as dead; his eyes are closed |
| Jack Benny | Gags die,humor doesn`t |
| Edward Abbey | A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government |
| Bertrand Russell | If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. |
| Martin Luther King III | We all have to be concerned about terrorism,but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others |
| John Quincy Adams | America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all |
| Howard Zinn | How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism |
| Edward Gibbon | As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors,the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters |
| Jimmy Buffett | I`d rather die while I`m living than live while I`m dead |
| Buddha | An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body,but an evil friend will wound your mind |
| Robert H. Jackson | It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error |
| Ellen Key | Love is moral even without legal marriage,but marriage is immoral without love |
| Unknown | A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works |
| Groucho Marx | I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member |
| Joey Adams | A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing |
| Lao Tzu | How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men |
| Tristan Eggener | Even the the most tempting rose has thorns |
| William Congreve | Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,nor hell a fury like a woman scorned |
| Kahlil Gibran | Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery |
| Garet Garrett | The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise |
| Robert Higgs | Since the end of the nineteenth century,if not earlier,presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war |
| Mark Twain | Why,the Government is merely,a temporary servant,Its function is to obey orders,not originate them |
| E. B. White | I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day |
| Lily Lily Tomlin | Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain |
| Ramman Kenoun | All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation`s reputation |
| Alfred Adler | It is easier to fight for one`s principles than to live up to them |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | We have guided missiles and misguided men |
| Bill Veeck | Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes,even the best lawyer in the world can`t get you off |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny |
| George Bernard Shaw | Every man over forty is a scoundrel |
| Andrew Greely | Since the end of the World War II,the United States has fought three "small" wars,we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Truth stands,even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained |
| Ambrose Bierce | Accuse: To affirm another`s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them |
| George Jessel | Marriage is a mistake every man should make |
| C. S. Lewis | Of all tyrannies,a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive |
| Randolph Bourne | One keeps healthy in wartime,by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part |
| Ernie Pyle | For me war has become a flat,black depression without highlights,a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit |
| Mark Twain | Don`t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first |
| David Broder | Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he`ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office |
| Alexander Berkman | War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood |
| Abraham Lincoln | If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? |
| Anthony J D`Angelo | If life doesn`t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one |
| German proverb | A great war leaves the country with three armies,an army of cripples,an army of mourners,and an army of thieves |
| Unknown | All extremists should be taken out and shot |
| George Bernard Shaw | A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment.An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man |
| Ludwig von Mises | War,is harmful,not only to the conquered but to the conqueror |
| Denis Diderot | From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | The guns and the bombs,the rockets and the warships,are all symbols of human failure |
| General Stonewall Jackson | People who are anxious to bring on war dont know what they are bargaining for; they dont see all the horrors that must accompany such an event |
| Herbert C. Hoover | Old men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die |
| George Orwell | The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side,he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them |
| James Patrick Murray | Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion,a screwball can be a pitch or a person,stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire`s eye or on the ball |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government |
| Ludwig von Mises | The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war |
| Frances Conroy | Marriage is an exercise in torture |
| Albert Einstein | Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it |
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government |
| Billy Connolly | Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again,so is a bicycle repair kit |
| Beverley Nichols | Marriage,a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose |
| Benjamin Franklin | There never was a good war or a bad peace |
| Stan Goff | War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism |
| Victor Hugo | Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime |
| Brigitte Bardot | It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen |
| Mark Twain | I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter |
| Barry Goldwater | You`ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs,you`re going to hit civilians |
| Phillip Caputo | 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 |
| Unknown | Here`s to your love, health, and wealth , and time to enjoy each |
| Nolan Ryan | Baseball life is a tough life on the family |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | War is the business of barbarians |
| Samuel Goldwyn | Let`s have some new clichés |
| Daisaku Ikeda | It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas |
| Robert M. LaFollette | If there is no sufficient reason for war,the war party will make war on one pretext,then invent another |
| T.S. Eliot | Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion |
| Robert A. Taft | I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people |
| John Galsworthy | We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough,and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it |
| Groucho Marx | I remember the first time I had sex,I kept the receipt |
| Mark Twain | Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person |
| Bruce Springsteen | Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed |
| Groucho Marx | I`ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn`t it |
| Smedley Butler | War is a racket |
| Buddha | All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? |
| Richard Bach | Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you`re alive,it isn`t |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich |
| Turkish Proverb | No road is long with good company |
| J. A. Froude | Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal |
| Jimmy Carter | There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat |
| Scott Ritter | I`d like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty |
| Anaïs Nin | If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation |
| Jeanette Winterson | After every 'victory' you have more enemies |
| Oscar Wilde | A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing |
| Adolph Hitler | Make the lie big,make it simple,keep saying it,and eventually they will believe it |
| William O. Douglas | The right to revolt has sources deep in our history |
| Mark Twain | It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either |
| Abraham Lincoln | Military glory--that attractive rainbow,that rises in showers of blood--that serpent`s eye,that charms to destroy.. |
| Ayn Rand | Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing |
| Horace | Force without judgement falls on its own weight |
| Ronald Reagan | We must realize that no arsenal,or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women |
| Albert Einstein | Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed,lest Rome fall |
| Samuel Goldwyn | If I could drop dead right now, I`d be the happiest man alive |
| C.S. Lewis | Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did |
| Issac Asimov | Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent |
| Mark Twain | Patriotism is supporting your country all the time,and your governmant when it deserves it |
| Senator Robert M. La Follette | Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely |
| Georges Courteline | It`s better to waste one`s youth than to do nothing with it at all |
| Albert Einstein | Force always attracts men of low morality |
| Ludwig von Mises | Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things |
| John Andrew Holmes | Yes,we love peace,but we are not willing to take wounds for it,as we are for war |
| Bertrand Russell | In all affairs it`s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. |
| Thomas Paine | It is error only,and not truth,that shrinks from inquiry |
| Buddha | An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind |
| Marshall McLuhan | I don`t necessarily agree with everything I say |
| Elvis Presley | When I get married,it`ll be no secret |
| General Omar Bradley | As far as I am concerned,war itself is immoral |
| General Smedley Butler | War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest,easily the most profitable,surely the most vicious |
| Groucho Marx | A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running |
| George Byron | All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin |
| Doug Horton | Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another |
| Alan King | If you want to read about love and marriage,you`ve got to buy two separate books |
| Gandhi | I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any |
| Phil Jackson | Approach the game with no preset agendas and you`ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts |
| Woody Allen | It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. |
| Ayn Rand | Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives |
| Albert Einstein | Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding |
| Mark Twain | Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey`s end |
| Samuel Hazo | Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything |
| Alphonse Karr | Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream,and not,as it too often is,the end |
| Garet Garrett | Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The more laws,the less justice |
| Rep. Wally Herger | Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people |
| Francis Bacon | I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am |
| Rodrigue Tremblay | The world should take notice when someone,with a fanatic mind and with powerful means,receives his marching orders from Heaven |
| Thomas Jefferson | Be polite to all, but intimate with few |
| Lewis Mumford | War is both the product of an earlier corruption,and a producer of new corruptions |
| Groucho Marx | I didn`t like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances , the curtains were up |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion |
| Guy de Maupassant | Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship`s captain has to avoid a shipwreck |
| David L. Wilson | War creates peace like hate creates love |
| Arthur "Cody" Jarrett | Made it, Ma! Top of the world! |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | War settles nothing |
| Groucho Marx | I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty |
| Jean -Luc Godard | Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Everything has been figured out,except how to live |
| James H. Boren | A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together |
| Montesquieu | An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind |
| Unknown | A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child |
| Oriana Fallaci | Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient |
| Logan Kodysz | How does one prevail in war? Both sides have already lost |
| Woody Allen | Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. |
| Mary Howitt | He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower |
| Joe Garagiola | Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast |
| Robert E. Lee | What a cruel thing is war,to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors,and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world |
| General Colin Powell | I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world |
| Ramman Kenoun | Good leaders serve the interests of their people,while unfit leaders exploit their citizens to serve their own |
| William Shakespeare | O,it is excellent To have a giants strength! But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant |
| Prince Montecuccoli | To wage war,you need first of all money; second,you need money,and third,you also need money |
| Oscar Wilde | A man can`t be too careful in the choice of his enemies |
| Katherine Mansfield | I always felt that the great high privilege,relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing |
| Spinoza | Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice |
| Anthony Gregory | Brute force is not our salvation,especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.. |
| John T. Flynn | Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people |
| Butler Shaffer | The state has,in order to control us,introduced division into our thinking,so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection |
| Antoine De Saint-Exupery | War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus |
| Bill Vaughan | Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man`s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college |
| Bill Cosby | Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Disarmament,with mutual honor and confidence,is a continuing imperative |
| Woody Allen | I don`t want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. |
| FA Hayek | `Emergencies` have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the long run,the sword is always defeated by the mind |
| Victor Hugo | Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age |
| William Arthur Ward | Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records |
| Wayne Gretzky | A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be |
| Henry T. Laurency | It is for us to refuse loyalty when injustice holds sway |
| Pope John Paul II | Will . . . the threat of common extermination continue?. . . Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance |
| George Bernard Shaw | Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can`t sleep with the window shut,and a woman who can`t sleep with the window open |
| Woody Allen | Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. |
| Unknown | Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it`s better than no government at all |
| Robert Lee Frost | Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer |
| George Bernard Shaw | Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few |
| Vassilis Epaminondou | If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero |
| David Merrick | It`s not enough that I should succeed,others should fail |
| Helen Rowland | It isn`t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it`s separating himself from all the others |
| Mark Twain | Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn`t |
| J. Ramsay MacDonald | We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn`t it time that we should take risks to secure peace |
| Elvis Presley | I don`t know anything about music. In my line you don`t have to |
| Jonathan Winters | I couldn`t wait for success,so I went ahead without it |
| Groucho Marx | Go,and never darken my towels again |
| Sen. J. William Fulbright Ark. | The price of empire is Americas soul,and that price is too high |
| Robert Orben | Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian |
| Blaise Pascal | Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water,and because his ruler has quarrel with mine,although I have none with him |
| Enoch Powell | History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen |
| James Bryce | Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong |
| Theodore Roosevelt | To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,is morally treasonable to the American public |
| Elbert Hubbard | If a feller says, "It`s not the money, it`s the principle of the thing," it`s the money |
| Bill Vaughan | Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man`s lifetime income,which he then spends sending his son to college |
| Samuel Goldwyn | I don`t want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs |
| Bertrand Russell | A stupid man`s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. |
| Jamaican Proverb | Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage shut one |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder |
| Ludwig von Mises | Men are fighting,because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Always make the audience suffer as much as possible |
| Alfred Adler | Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles |
| Sigmund Freud | Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock |
| Kaleel Jamison | Relationships,of all kinds,are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely,with an open hand,the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on,the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it,but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held ,loosely,with respect and freedom for the other person,it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly,too possessively,and the relationship slips away and is lost |
| George Herbert | Living well is the best revenge |
| Lou Gehrig | Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.[13] |
| James Madison | The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger,real or imagined,from abroad |
| Johnny Cash | The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn`t seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in,bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war |
| Garrison Keillor | God writes a lot of comedy,the trouble is,he`s stuck with so many bad actors who don`t know how to play funny |
| Albert Einstein | Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth |
| Bette Midler | I never know how much of what I say is true |
| J. Edgar Hoover | Justice is incidental to law and order |
| Senator Robert M. La Follette | Before the war is ended,the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly |
| Robert Frost | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never remembers her age. |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | I`m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You`re as old as you feel |
| George W. Bush | I think war is a dangerous place |
| Buddha | Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment |
| Ken Gillespie | War doesn`t make boys men,it makes men dead |
| Ramman Kenoun | Killing someone is the ultimate crime,while on the other hand,killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty |
| Umberto Eco | But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth |
| Star Wars | May the force be with you. |
| Mae West | He`s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of |
| Earl Wilson | If you think nobody cares if you`re alive, try missing a couple of car payments |
| Steve Henthorn | Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | You can`t have this kind of war. There just aren`t enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets |
| Michael Hall | Follow not the person carrying flag nor sword,for they will invariably lead you to a cliff and a mighty fall |
| Serj Tankian | We first fought,in the name of religion,then Communism,and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change |
| George Orwell | If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever |
| Unknown | Cynics are made, not born |
| Salvador de Madariaga | No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies |
| Groucho Marx | Military justice is to justice what military music is to music |
| Buddha | Do not dwell in the past,do not dream of the future,concentrate the mind on the present moment |
| Chris Hedges | War in the end is always about betrayal,betrayal of the young by the old,of soldiers by politicians,and of idealists by cynics |
| Frederick the Great | If my soldiers were to begin to think,not one of them would remain in the army |
| Peter Wastholm | All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy |
| Albert Einstein | Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | One more such victory and we are undone |
| Colonel James A. Donovan,Marine Corps | The dangerous patriot,drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions |
| Elbert Hubbard | If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive |
| Carol Burnett | Comedy is tragedy plus time |
| George Jacob Holyoake | There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost |
| Norman Cousins | Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world |
| Thomas Paine | War is the gambling table of governments,and citizens the dupes of the game |
| Ronald Reagan | A people free to choose will always choose peace |
| Richard O`Brien | I`ve been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky`s continual bounty |
| Thomas Paine | An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot |
| Walter Scott | War is the only game in which both sides lose |
| Jean Jaques Rousseau | Man was/is born free,and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they |
| George Orwell | The essential act of war is destruction,not necessarily of human lives,but of the products of human labor |
| Albert Einstein | Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. |
| Thomas Jones | Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Well married a person has wings,poorly married shackles |
| Russell Crowe Nash | Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter. |
| David Cross | You cannot win a War on Terrorism. Its like having a war on jealousy |
| Thomas Jefferson | I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind |
| Otto von Bismarck | Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death |
| Carl Sandburg | I`m an idealist. I don`t know where I`m going, but I`m on my way |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious |
| Bertrand Russell | Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. |
| Helen Keller | Be not dumb,obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction |
| Henry David Thoreau | Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads |
| Henry Havelock Ellis | There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it |
| Albert Einstein | Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. |
| Elbert Hubbard | A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same |
| William Cowper | War`s a game,which,were their subjects wise,Kings would not play at |
| Henk Middelraad | Emphasis on military prowess is an indication of philosophical poverty |
| Ted Williams | Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer |
| P. J. O`Rourke | All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that`s said with a dismissive giggle |
| Aristotle | Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age |
| Prince Nicholas Romanoff | Friendships develop over food and wine |
| George W. Bush | Our enemies are innovative and resourceful,They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,and neither do we |
| James Carroll | We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for |
| Luther Burbank | I don`t feel good |
| William Graham Sumner | If you want war,nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.. |
| Noam Chomsky | You never need an argument against the use of violence,you need an argument for it |
| Colin Chapman | The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much |
| Jimmy Carter | We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other`s children |
| Woody Allen | Basically my wife was immature. I`d be at home in the bath and she`d come in and sink my boats |
| Groucho Marx | Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough |
| Barbara Jordan | What the people want is very simple,they want an America as good as its promise |
| Ente Grillenhaft | The first casualty of war is not truth,but perspective. Once that`s gone,truth,like compassion,reason,and all the other virtues,wanders around like a wounded orphan |
| Robert Frost | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never remembers her age |
| John Lennon | If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set,then there`d be peace |
| John Adams composer | The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people`s cars,it`s in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government |
| Robert Anderson | In every marriage more than a week old,there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find,and continue to find,grounds for marriage |
| Albert Einstein | A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. |
| Maya Angelou | Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean |
| Gore Vidal | A narcissist is someone better looking than you are |
| Rod Tidwell | Show me the money! |
| Groucho Marx | Before I speak,I have something important to say |
| William James | Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,moving at different speeds;A sense of humor is just common sense,dancing |
| Walter Goodman | Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident |
| Dr. Teresa Whitehurst | "Rules of engagement" are a set of guidelines for murder |
| Marshall Lumsden | At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer |
| C. S. Lewis | Friendship is unnecessary,like philosophy,like art,It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival |
| P. J. O`Rourke | Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it |
| John Keating | Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. |
| Patrick J. Buchanan | No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world |
| Capt. Louis Renault | Round up the usual suspects. |
| Sid Caesar | Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end |
| Oscar Wilde | A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it |
| Woody Allen | How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? |
| Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke | One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry,a key weakness in democracy |
| James Wolcott | Its one thing to fight for what you believe in,another thing to fight for what others believe in |
| Justin Raimondo | We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic |
| Robert Lynd | The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions |
| Daniel Goleman | Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness |
| Patricia Sun | War comes from our being immature,fearful,and injured,and not being able to concieve of other ways of solving problems |
| Samuel Johnson | Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art`s temptations: that of being a genius |
| David Lloyd | You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon |
| Herman Goering | The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders,tell them they are being attacked,and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger |
| Dale Carnegie | Flaming enthusiasm,backed up by horse sense and persistence,is the quality that most frequently makes for success |
| Doug Horton | If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell? |
| Russell Baker | Usually,terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all,but just terrible things |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Give them pleasure,the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare |
| Muhammad Ali | Friendship,is not something you learn in school. But if you haven`t learned the meaning of friendship,you really haven`t learned anything |
| Alice Duer Miller | A child too,can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well,is so concerned about his cough,and helps so kindly with his homework,in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world |
| Groucho Marx | I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it |
| Ramman Kenoun | In war,there are no winners |
| Leo Tolstoy | We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state,but we must desire its decrease,its weakening.. |
| H. L. Mencken | The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it |
| Bert Leston Taylor | A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you |
| Albert Camus | The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants |
| Mary Schmich | Like many women my age, I am 28 years old |
| Dalai Lama | All forms of violence,especially war,are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations,groups and persons |
| Ludwig von Mises | The essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income |
| Thomas Hobbes | Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues |
| Ken Gillespie | I am not against all wars--just whichever is current |
| Ambrose Bierce | Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others` pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third |
| Richard Maybury | Washington,has become an alien city-state that rules America,and much of the rest of the world,in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire |
| Eldridge Cleaver | All the gods are dead except the god of war |
| George Bernard Shaw | Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid,There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals,no sect,no party.. |
| Lord Acton | Everything secret degenerates,even the administration of justice |
| Alfred Hitchcock | A lot of movies are about life,mine are like a slice of cake |
| Pope John Paul II | War is a defeat for humanity |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner |
| Howard Zinn | There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people |
| Francis John McConnell | We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything |
| Albert Einstein | All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. |
| Bertrand Russell | The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. |
| Leo Tolstoy | What an immense mass of evil must result,from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen |
| Margaret Mead | As long as any adult thinks that he,like the parents and teachers of old,can become introspective,invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him,he is lost |
| Sophie Kerr | If peace,only had the music and pagaentry of war,there`d be no wars |
| Thomas Jefferson | The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to |
| Lydia Sicher | As long as we can talk with people,as long as one can keep the guns quiet,one has a chance |
| King Baudouin I of Belgium | It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him |
| Mark Twain | Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,but the really great make you feel that you,too,can become great |
| Condoleeza Rice | You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable |
| Sen. Robert Byrd | This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history |
| Charles Eliot Norton | If a war be undertaken,before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it,that war has no defense,it is a national crime |
| Oscar Wilde | There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about |
| Unknown | Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects |
| Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis | The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people |
| Harry S. Truman | The responsibility of the great states is to serve,and not to dominate,the world |
| Red Auerbach | Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first,and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up |
| Albert Einstein | Anyone who doesn`t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. |
| Liv Tyler | I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You`re young enough to get away with things, but you`re old enough, too |
| Gordie Howe | All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity |
| Howard Thurman | During times of war,hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | I hate war,for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies,and for the starvation that stalks after it |
| Dr. Squid | Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas |
| Russell Banks | Luck can`t last a lifetime unless you die young |
| Robert G. Ingersoll | In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments , there are consequences |
| Louis Lecoin | One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses |
| Marquis de Sade | Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace cannot be achieved through violence,it can only be attained through understanding |
| Unknown | For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know |
| Steven Coallier | Attack life, it`s going to kill you anyway |
| Benjamin Disraeli | War is never a solution; it is an aggravation |
| Isadora Duncan | Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract,and then goes into it,deserves all the consequences |
| Jerry Chin | And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow |
| Dag Hammarskjold | Friendship needs no words,it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness |
| Charles Bukowski | Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes |
| Anthony Hopkins | I love life because what more is there |
| Frederick Douglass | The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest,truthful,and virtuous |
| A. J. P. Taylor | No matter what political reasons are given for war,the underlying reason is always economic |
| Helen Rowland | In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar,a practice which is still continued |
| Ramman Kenoun | The tyrant always talks as if he`s preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them |
| Sun Tzu | There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare |
| Nima Shirali,Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum | Let us become inspired by inherent beauty,and not impassioned by manufactured hate |
| Albert Einstein | Heroism on command,senseless violence,and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism,how passionately I hate them! |
| André Roussin | If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? |
| Albert Einstein | Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school |
| Oscar Wilde | In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars |
| Dean Inge | Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due |
| James Madison | If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy |
| Nima Shirali,Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum | Let us form a new religion,that which would be called `humanity`,with `peace` as its prophet |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | War is the statesman`s game,the priest`s delight,the lawyer`s jest,the hired assassin`s trade |
| Buddha | Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned |
| Ramman Kenoun | Power is usurped from the people,first by implementing fear,then it is maintained by slandering as `unpatriotic` those who refuse submission |
| John "Bluto" Blutarsky | Toga! Toga! |
| Voltaire | To the wicked,everything serves as pretext |
| Groucho Marx | All people are born alike,except Republicans and Democrats |
| Dorothy Thompson | Peace has to be created,in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism |
| George Taylor | Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape. |
| George Washington | Government is not reason,it is not eloquence,it is force,Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action |
| John Keats | If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all |
| Mae West | Marriage is a great institution,but I`m not ready for an institution |
| George Washington | Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all |
| John Adams | There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty |
| General William Westmoreland | War is fear cloaked in courage |
| Frank Herbert | It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible |
| Henry Ellis | All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on |
| Sir Peter Ustinov | As for being a General,well,at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords,we`re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it |
| Maurice Chevalier | comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay,it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. |
| Bill Cosby | I don`t know the key to success,but the key to failure is trying to please everybody |
| Bertolt Brecht | Grub first, then ethics |
| Tom Stoppard | Age is a very high price to pay for maturity |
| The Terminator | Hasta la vista, baby. |
| Scott Ritter | We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines,soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.. |
| Benjamin Franklin | I hope,.that mankind will at length,as they call themselves responsible creatures,have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats.. |
| Charley Reese | The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests |
| Steven Wright | Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time |
| Major Ralph Peters,US Military | The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault |
| James Wolcott | The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned,stop conning yourself |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names |
| Stephen Vincent BenThe supreme excellence is to subde the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them | We thought,because we had power,we had wisdom |
| Sen. Robert Taft,R Ohio | Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government |
| Elias Canetti | All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams |
| Richard Cobden | Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce |
| Lance Cpl. Devin Kelly USMC | The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman |
| Voltaire | I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it |
| John Adams | Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.. |
| Adolf Hitler | I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few |
| Sir Peter Ustinov | Terrorism is the war of the poor,and war is the terrorism of the rich |
| George Christop Lichtenberg | A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can`t expect an apostle to look out |
| Ambrose Bierce | The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations |
| Edward M. Kennedy | Violence is an admission that one`s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits |
| Thomas Jefferson | If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,in a state of civilization,it expects what never was and never will be |
| Unknown | If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are |
| P. J. O`Rourke | Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes |
| Truman Capote | Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act |
| Murray Rothbard | The State thrives on war unless,of course,it is defeated and crushed expands on it,glories in it |
| Voltaire | Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities |
| Adlai tevenson | A free society is a place where it`s safe to be unpopular |
| Joseph Conrad | Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life |
| Walt Disney | Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. |
| Benjamin Franklin | All wars are follies,very expensive and very mischievous ones |
| Robert Lee Frost | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never her age |
| Winston Churchill | I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me |
| Plutarch | I don`t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better |
| Rosa Moline | What a dump.[21] |
| Thomas Jefferson | I live for books |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey`s end. |
| Voltaire | Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung |
| Jeane J. Kirkpatrick | We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace |
| Jean-Luc Godard | Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The coward threatens when he is safe |
| Knut Hamsun | In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived |
| Aeschylus | In war,truth is the first casualty |
| Thomas Merton | Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war |
| Senator John McCain | War is wretched beyond description,and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality |
| A. E. Newman | Crime does not pay as well as politics |
| Sacha Guitry | When a man steals your wife,there is no better revenge than to let him keep her |
| W. L. George | Wars teach us not to love our enemies,but to hate our allies |
| Gollum | My precious. |
| Liv Tyler | I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You`re young enough to get away with things,but you`re old enough,too |
| Abraham Lincoln | Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,it is simply purgatory |
| Woody Allen | I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. |
| Erich Maria Remarque | A hospital alone shows what war is |
| Lord Kitchener Horatio Herbert | Don`t talk to me about atrocities; all war is an atrocity |
| William Penn | Right is right,even if everyone is against it,and wrong is wrong,even if everyone is for it |
| Alan King | Marriage is nature`s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers |
| Joan Powers | A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference |
| Martin Luther | Let the wife make the husband glad to come home,and let him make her sorry to see him leave |
| Charles M. Schulz | I think I`ve discovered the secret of life,you just hang around until you get used to it |
| Thomas A. Edison | I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war |
| Alfred Hitchcock | If it`s a good movie,the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on |
| Will Rogers | Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | We seek peace,knowing that peace is the climate of freedom |
| Sam Spade | The stuff that dreams are made of.[5] |
| Mame Dennis | Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death! |
| Elias Canetti | Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim |
| Woody Allen | Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. |
| George Santayana | It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness |
| Moliere | Love is often the fruit of marriage |
| Ayn Rand | Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil |
| George Bernard | It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind |
| Simone Weil | Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.. |
| Unknown | Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused |
| Vegetius | 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 |
| Ronald Reagan | ,no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain,for economic advantage,for ideology |
| Eugene Debs | No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people |
| Joseph Heller | I`d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals |
| Woody Allen | Most of the time I don`t have much fun. The rest of the time I don`t have any fun at all. |
| Logan P. Smith | How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? |
| Walt Kelly | We have met the enemy and he is us |
| Albert Camus | When a war breaks out,people say: "It`s too stupid,it can`t last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn`t prevent its lasting |
| Ludwig von Mises | The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace |
| Bertrand Russell | The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. |
| Voltairine de Clayre | A standing army is a standing menace to liberty |
| Pierre de Coubertin | All sports for all people |
| Frank Herbert | All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities |
| Joan Powers | Don`t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can`t hear, and not bothering |
| Thich Nhat Hahn | Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment |
| Bill Vaughan | A citizen ofAmerica will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won`t cross the street to vote in a national election |
| Abraham Lincoln | America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter,and lose our freedoms,it will be because we destroyed ourselves |
| John Bright | If this phrase of the `balance of power` is to be always an argument for war,the pretext for war will never be wanting,and peace can never be secure |
| Bertrand Russell | In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. |
| Walter Lippmann | The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race |
| William Shakespeare | How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world |
| Erasmus | War is the blackest villainy of which human nature is capable |
| Jean Renoir | In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons |
| Unknown | Familiarity breeds contempt |
| Alexander Berkman | War means blind obedience,unthinking stupidity,brutish callousness,wanton destruction,and irresponsible murder |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Nations,like individuals,are punished for their transgressions |
| Buddha | Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence |
| George M. Cohan | My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you. |
| Bertrand Russell | Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. |
| Ron Paul | The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty,not coddle the world,precipitating no-win wars,while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people |
| Lewis Mumford | Misery,mutilation,destruction,terror,starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product |
| Thomas Jefferson | Commerce with all nations,alliance with none,should be our motto |
| Groucho Marx | Marriage is a wonderful institution,but who wants to live in an institution? |
| Bertrand Russell | I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
| Duke of Wellington | Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won |
| Bertrand Russell | Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. |
| Honorè De Balzac | Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies |
| Ludwig von Mises | Economically considered,war and revolution are always bad business |
| Lady Gaga | I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone theyre going to take my creativity from me through my vagina. Im perpetually lonely. Im lonely when Im in relationships. Its my condition as an artist. Im drawn to bad romances |
| Jose Barreiro | There is but one evil,war. All the other proclaimed evils such as hate,greed,descrimination,and jealousy are only sub-categories of it |
| Ambrose Bierce | In Dr. Johnson`s famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first |
| Charles Tilly | Almost all war making states borrow extensively,raise taxes,and seize the means of combat- including men--from reluctant citizens.. |
| Malcolm X | You`re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can`t face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it |
| Rodrigue Tremblay | Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are,more often than not,the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices |
| Albert Camus | The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance,and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security |
| Groucho Marx | A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five |
| Hermione Gingold | A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch |
| Groucho Marx | I must confess,I was born at a very early age |
| Nelson Mandela | If you want to make peace with your enemy,you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner |
| Jerome G. Fenster | Human failure of communication and failed diplomacy between Nations should not yield the ultimate sacrifice; a life |
| Congressman Ron Paul | War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures |
| Henry Ford | Anyone who stops learning is old,whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young |
| Unknown | Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don`t think |
| General Douglas MacArthur | Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear |
| Unknown | Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse |
| Linda Festa | The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders |
| Unknown | Everyone smiles in the same language |
| Thomas Jefferson | Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government |
| Robert E. Lee | What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends,and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this world.. |
| Thomas Jefferson | We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest |
| Butler Shaffer | In this war as in others I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The sinews of war are infinite money |
| Samuel Johnson | Bachelors have consciences,married men have wives |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman | It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,more vengeance,more desolation. War is hell |
| Francis John McConnell | We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us |
| Ludwig von Mises | If men do not now succeed in abolishing war,civilization and mankind are doomed |
| Colin Powell | War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war,we should have a purpose that our people understand and support |
| Aldous Huxley | What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood |
| Joe Walsh | I can`t complain, but sometimes I still do |
| Albert Einstein | I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination |
| Unknown | Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is |
| Thomas Jefferson | If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so |
| Mikhail Gofman,Antiwar.com reader | One day the end of the world will come as a result of a `justified` war |
| Dudley Moore | I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands |
| Gabrielle Colette | Be happy. It is a way of being wise |
| Craig Murray | As a rule of thumb,if the government wants you to know it,it probably isn`t true |
| Pablo Picasso | Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth |
| Jim Fiebig | Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body,but can never be so in mind |
| John Cory | War is the cemetery of futures promised |
| Buddha | It is a man`s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways |
| Edward R. Murrow | We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies,I think the soul of America dies with it |
| Sacha Guitry | An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren`t |
| John James Ingalls | There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave |
| Mufasa | Look inside yourself. You are more than what you have become. |
| Laurence Peter | Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame |
| Doug Horton | Boring people are a reflection of boring people |
| Edmund Burke | All government , indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act , is founded on compromise and barter |
| Unknown | Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs |
| Groucho Marx | I didn`t like the play,but then I saw it under adverse conditions,the curtain was up |
| Ramman Kenoun | How is it possible for people to consider themselves supporters of the troops when they approve of an event that throws those troops into,peril |
| Jesse Owens | A lifetime of training for just ten seconds |
| Addison Walker | It`s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts |
| Thucydides | Love of power,operating through greed and through personal ambition,was the cause of all these evils |
| Mark Twain | Be loyal to your country always,and to the government only when it deserves it |
| Hugh Mann | It`s more humane to cure your enemies than to kill them |
| Charles Eliot Norton | The voice of protest,is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum,is bidding all men,obey in silence the tyrannous word of command |
| Justice Louis D. Brandeis | To declare that the end justifies the means,to declare that the government may commit crimes,would bring terrible retribution |
| Groucho Marx | A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere |
| Davy Crockett | Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have |
| Groucho Marx | Behind every successful man is a woman,behind her is his wife |
| Bette Midler | After thirty, a body has a mind of its own |
| Mark Twain | I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land |
| Albert Einstein | As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,they are not certain,and as far as they are certain,they do not refer to reality. |
| Ramman Kenoun | Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | It is always more valuable to report the truth |
| Ronald Reagan | History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind |
| Lord Greene | A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got." |
| Mark Twain | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don`t mind, it doesn`t matter |
| Georges Sorel | Hate is able to provoke disorders,to ruin a social organization,to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing |
| Adlai tevenson | In America, anybody can be president. That`s one of the risks you take |
| Doug Collins | Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win |
| Ludwig von Mises | Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly |
| Bill Cosby | Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older,I begin each day with coffee and obituaries |
| Leo Buscaglia | Don`t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade |
| John Cory | There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.. |
| Red Skelton | All men make mistakes,but married men find out about them sooner |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,only as one who has seen its brutality,its futility,its stupidity |
| Stephen Vincent Benét | Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways |
| David Hume | It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once |
| Henry Louis Mencken | Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking |
| Buddha | It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell |
| A. J. P. Taylor | No war is inevitable until it breaks out |
| Garet Garrett | With no notice to the American people,this country entered the war,Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it |
| William Faulkner | So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous,all of us let ourselves be deceived,abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.. |
| William Ernest Hocking | I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work |
| Ambrose Bierce | Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one`s country |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman | War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine,War is hell |
| Doug Horton | Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss |
| Cicero | After victory,you have more enemies |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same. |
| Albert Einstein | A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? |
| Karl Hess | Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason,sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder |
| Cecil B. De Mille | A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit |
| Pete Seeger | If you love this land of the free,bring `em home,bring `em home,Bring `em back from overseas |
| Christian Nevell Bovee | In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at |
| Bertrand Russell | The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. |
| J. R. Hobson | Governments use national animosities,foreign wars and the glamour of empire-making,in order to,divert rising sentiment against domestic abuses |
| Henry Louis Mencken | Criticism is prejudice made plausible |
| Gordon Gekko | Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.[18] |
| Carl P. G. von Clausewitz | The political object is the goal,war is the means of reaching it,and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes |
| Ogden Nash | Marriage is the alliance of two people,one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them |
| Thomas Jefferson | Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars,with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Violence is not power,but the absence of power |
| Noam Chomsky | It`s very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick |
| Woody Allen | If it turns out that there is a God, I don`t think that he`s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he`s an underachiever. |
| Jim Lovell | Houston, we have a problem.[15] |
| Georg W. Hegel | What experience and history teach is thisthat people and governments never have learned anything from history,or acted on principles deduced from it |
| Alice Roosevelt Longworth | I have a simple philosophy: Fill what`s empty. Empty what`s full. Scratch where it itches |
| St. Augustine | When [men] go to war,what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor`s will and call it peace |
| T.S. Eliot | That meddling in other people`s affairs,formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention |
| Charley Reese | We,are not really free if we can`t control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant |
| George Washington | Be courteous to all,but intimate with few,and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence |
| Albert Einstein | Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,in my opinion,to characterize our age |
| George Burns | I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate |
| Groucho Marx | A man`s only as old as the woman he feels |
| Alice Duer Miller | Don`t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course,because,like democracy and freedom,many people you`ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,but a means by which we arrive at that goal |
| Albert Einstein | Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war |
| Dale Turner | Today the real test of America`s power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it |
| Unknown | If it weren`t for caffeine I`d have no personality whatsoever |
| Albert Einstein | Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions |
| H.L. Mencken | The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule |
| Senator James W. Fulbright | The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements |
| Ambrose Bierce | Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me |
| Swedish Proverb | Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow |
| George Ade | If it were not for the presents,an elopement would be preferable |
| Ernest Hemingway | The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin |
| Fanny Brice | Hello gorgeous. |
| General Thomas S. Power | Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk,the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs --to kill people and to destroy |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it |
| James Madison | Of all the enemies to public liberty war is,perhaps the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other |
| Brooks Atkinson | After each war there is a little less democracy left to save |
| James Carroll | We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others--even when we cause it |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ,to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one`s wife happy. First,let her think she`s having her own way. And second,let her have it |
| Henry Louis Mencken | Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | It isn`t enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn`t enough to believe in it. One must work at it |
| Shirin Ebadi | Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight,nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve |
| Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation | Love is not a mere sentiment |
| General Vo Nguyen Giap Vietnam | Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat |
| Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | Mankind deserves sacrifice,but not of mankind |
| Yogi Berra | It`s like déjà vu all over again |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression,and retaliation |
| Leo Tolstoy | The greater the state,the more wrong and cruel its patriotism,and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded |
| Lewis Mumford | In war,the army is not merely a pure consumer,but a negative producer.. |
| John Leonard | Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football,basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns |
| General Douglas MacArthur | I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations |
| Ludwig von Mises | Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking |
| Ramman Kenoun | The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression |
| Buddha | However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? |
| George Orwell | War is a way of shattering to pieces,materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and,too intelligent |
| Henry Ford | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young |
| Samuel Johnson | I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works |
| Robert Michels | Never is the power of the state greater,and never are the forces of political parties of opposition less effective,than at the outbreak of war |
| Margaret Mead | Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,committed people can change the world. Indeed,it is the only thing that ever has |
| Murray Rothbard | ,The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy,especially with modern technology |
| Stanley Baldwin | War would end if the dead could return |
| William Arthur Ward | A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life |
| Karl Von Clausewitz | War is the continuation of politics by other means |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently |
| Albert Einstein | Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools |
| Michael Jordan | I`ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed |
| General William Westmoreland | The military doesn`t start wars. The politicians start wars |
| Linda Fiorentino | Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already |
| Norman Cousins | The only security for the American people today,or for any people,is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force |
| Winston Churchill | War is mainly a catalogue of blunders |
| Bertrand Russell | Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. |
| Fritz Medicus | If,finally,violence meets with violence,we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it kills many men,makes many more men evil |
| Stalin | A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics |
| Alfred Nobel | Hope is nature`s veil for hiding truth`s nakedness |
| Grusinskaya | I want to be alone. |
| Howard Zinn | One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Every calling is great when greatly pursued |
| Dalai Lama | I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha,whose divine wisdom is absolute.. |
| Senator Robert M. La Follette | If there is no sufficient reason for war,the war party will make war on one pretext,then invent another,after the war is on |
| Samuel B. Pettengill | War--after all,what is it that the people get? Why--widows,taxes,wooden legs and debt |
| Bertrand Russell | The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. |
| Margaret Mead | As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost |
| Maurice Chevalier | A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world |
| Thomas Paine | He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death |
| Bertrand Russell | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
| Allen Dulles | At least we`re getting the kind of experience we need for the next war |
| John 8:32 | And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall set you free |
| Edward Abbey | The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals |
| Sonny Wortzik | Attica! Attica! |
| George Washington | It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world |
| Rose Kennedy | I`ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it |
| Ludwig von Mises | Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone,whether citizen or foreigner |
| Lt. Gen. James Mattis,USMC | It`s quite fun to fight `em,you know. It`s a hell of a hoot. It`s fun to shoot some people. I`ll be right up front with you,I like brawling |
| Bette Midler | After thirty,a body has a mind of its own |
| Frederick the Great | A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society |
| Marceline Desbordes-Valmore | Are we not like two volumes of one book |
| Albert Einstein | Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else , unless it is an enemy |
| Ludwig von Mises | To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war |
| Albert J. Nock | It is unfortunately none too well understood that,just as the State has no money of its own,so it has no power of its own |
| Woody Allen | Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you |
| Thomas Jefferson | The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force |
| Prince Philip | When a man opens a car door for his wife,it`s either a new car or a new wife |
| Samuel Butler | Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them |
| Isaac Asimov | It is not only the living who are killed in war |
| Tony Benn | All war represents a failure of diplomacy |
| Winston Churchill | When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise |
| Woody Allen | My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. |
| James Bryce | Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity |
| Thomas Jefferson | But friendship is precious,not only in the shade,but in the sunshine of life,and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | He who has a why to live can bear almost any how |
| Mark Twain | Just the omission of Jane Austen`s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn`t a book in it |
| Unknown | A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority |
| John F. Kennedy | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable |
| Enid Bagnold | In marriage there are no manners to keep up,and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring |
| John F. Kennedy | The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate,continued,and dishonest; but the myth: persistent,persuasive,and unrealistic |
| Rick Blaine | Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Either war is obsolete,or men are |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments |
| Winston Churchill | Never believe any war will be smooth and easy,or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter |
| Lois McMaster Bujold | War is not its own end,except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation |
| Austin Holmes | It is not the bad times on which we should dwell, it is only poison to the mind and soul. We shall rise up after we fall, and continue to go on , dwelling on the good, high-spirited times of our lives |
| Erasmus,the 16th-century scholar | Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced |
| Bertrand Russell | Passive acceptance of the teacher`s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. |
| Thomas Jefferson | To preserve our independence,We must make our election between economy and liberty,or profusion and servitude |
| Bertrand Russell | So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he`s finished |
| Albert Camus | Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face |
| John F. Kennedy | We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,foreign ideas,alien philosophies,and competitive values |
| Harry Elmer Barnes | War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships |
| Ernest Hemingway | You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself |
| Rep. Meyer London | They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetery |
| Mark Twain | Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven |
| Albert Einstein | God does not play dice |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war |
| Albert Einstein | Everything should be as simple as it is,but not simpler |
| Robert Taft | The maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country,more good than it will do the enemy |
| Winston Churchill | Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains |
| Robert Higgs | When American presidents prepare for foreign wars,they lie |
| Helen Gahagan | When a marriage works,nothing on earth can take its place |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | The tragedy of war is that it uses mans best to do mans worst |
| Quentin Crisp | The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy |
| Martin Luther King,Jr. | Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows |
| Alfred Hitchcock | In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director |
| G. K. Chesterton | The only defensible war is a war of defense |
| George Bernard Shaw | Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended |
| Thomas Jefferson | I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves |
| Henry Havelock Ellis | If I didn`t have a problem with alcohol, I`d drink all the time |
| André Roussin | He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much |
| Johnny Castle | Nobody puts Baby in a corner. |
| John Barrymore | Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him |
| Alfred Hitchcock | I`m not against the police; I`m just afraid of them |
| Alfred Hitchcock | A good film is when the price of the dinner,the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it |
| Anthony J D`Angelo | Have a strong mind and a soft heart |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds,just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms |
| George W. Bush on Iraqi Insurgency | These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens,and they want us to leave,I think the world would be better off if we did leave.. |
| Jacobo Timerman | We believed ourselves indestructable,watching only the madmen outside our frontiers,and we remained defenseless against our own madmen |
| Thomas Pynchon | If they can get you asking the wrong questions,they don`t have to worry about answers |
| Gilbert Chesterton | A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author |
| Mignon McLaughlin | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,always with the same person |
| H. G. Wells | It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men`s lives should not pay with their own |
| William Colby,former CIA director | The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished |
| Theodore Roosevelt | That we are to stand by the president,right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile,but is morally treasonable to the American public |
| Charles-Louis De Secondat | The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded |
| Senator Robert M. La Follette | In times of peace,the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for,it insists on making war |
| Pope John Paul II | Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore,prove ultimately futile |
| Martin Luther | War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion,it destroys states,it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total,because it may well involve the whole world |
| Groucho Marx | I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn`t educate America if they started at 6:30 |
| Blaise Pascal | I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man`s being unable to sit still in a room |
| Mark Twain | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don`t mind,it doesn`t matter |
| Joseph Goebbels | Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play |
| Helen Keller | Strike against war,for without you no battles can be fought |
| Marilyn Monroe | Before marriage,a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage,she has to hold him to make love to him |
| Raymond Hull | All marriages are happy. It`s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble |
| Dan Quayle | Bobby Knight told me this: `There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.` In other words a good offense wins |
| Maximilien Robespierre | One can,never create [freedom] by an invading force |
| Jack Kingston | Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature |
| General Smedley Butler | War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives |
| Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore | I love the smell of napalm in the morning. |
| George W. Bush | Evil men,obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience,must be taken very seriously--and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply |
| Dustin Hoffman | Ratso" Rizzo |
| Virgil Tibbs | They call me Mister Tibbs! |
| Stephen Leacock | Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl |
| Sydney J. Harris | If a small thing has the power to make you angry,does that not indicate something about your size? |
| Hannibal Lecter | A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. |
| Sir John Frederick Maurice | I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it |
| Woody Allen | On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. |
| Groucho Marx | I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on,I go to the library and read a good book |
| Robert Byrne | Getting caught is the mother of invention |
Any idiot can face a crisis,it`s day to day living that wears you out