top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go."
Author Name
Personal Development
"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."
Author Name
Personal Development
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Two hundred Romans, and no one's got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form?Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
Ethics
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."
Life
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
Man
"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."
Politics
"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
Fight
"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good."
History
"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
Home
"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
Character
"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
Man
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
Education
bottom of page