Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Tag: quotes about war
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
My father was in the First World War.
My father was in the First World War.
When there's a war people get married.
When there's a war people get married.
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
And I'm a slow writer: five six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
And I'm a slow writer: five six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war – not against the Taliban but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes and that's a victory he savors and desires – unlike Afghanistan where he seems only to want to turn tail.
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war – not against the Taliban but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes and that's a victory he savors and desires – unlike Afghanistan where he seems only to want to turn tail.
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton the founder of this newspaper insisted on it.
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton the founder of this newspaper insisted on it.
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
War is what happens when language fails.
War is what happens when language fails.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.