#war

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective. ↗

— Elihu Root

#effective #fittest #inevitably #law #led

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

#characteristics #contribute #departure #fact #human

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#aware #being #car #changed #daughter

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#deprive #done #duty #eternal #had

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#bringing #care #case #children #fathers

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#buck #cost #dollars #investment #just

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England. ↗

— Lemmy Kilmister

#world-war-ii

The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off with jugs and buckets to meet the water cart. It is queer to think that these are the people who once ruled Europe, from the Channel to the Caspian Sea and might have conquered our own island, if they had known how weak we were. ↗

— George Orwell

#world-war-ii

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal