Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely dest….
Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything….
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural….
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evi….
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it..
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war ….
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in..
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!.
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environ….
Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for i….
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe….
I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one..
By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty ….
The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon t….
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad ….
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and ….
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict ….
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours..
When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed i….
I detest war; it ruins conversation.
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession..