#war

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#means #nation #nourished #strengthened #wars

What is more immoral than war? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#more #than #war

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#bombing #come #conquer #defender #different

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#adventure #disease #like #typhus

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#direction #does #each #gazing #looking

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#lies #meaning #meaning of #our #them

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#both #digital #empowered #painterly #painters

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concert hall #day #every #every day #hall

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#another #country #doing #forward #gold