#war

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. ↗

— William Beveridge

#common man #glory #government #happiness #man

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#every #fact #frustrating #i #mother

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#body #burden #down #dragged #drags

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#fight #new #old #wars #we cannot

In time of war the laws are silent. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#silent #time #war

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every #sensation #thought #thwarted

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. ↗

— Joe Biden

#balance of power #crisis #deal #economic #economic future

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#directing #i #i think #just #more