#war

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#adds #big #both #daily #daily work

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#bipartisan #democrats #election #forward #get

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#gulf #gulf war #i #illness #think

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#arnold schwarzenegger #days #kennedy #late #leading

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#afterwards #anyone #ask #aunt #being

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#down #fall #look #never #stairs

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. ↗

— William Kirby

#century #east #east asia #end #first

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. ↗

— William Kirby

#believe #great #history #human #human history

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ↗

— William Kirby

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