#war

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#alleviating #chance #christianity #difficult #instance

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#earn #exact #idly #justly #our

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ↗

— Anais Nin

#acted #being #come #every #fate

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#comfortable #common #director #do your best #ethic

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity. ↗

— David Niven

#ever #going #humanity #i #only

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against. ↗

— David Niven

#always #anyone #bad #bad girl #bad girls

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. ↗

— Larry Niven

#cold war #could #during #faced #global

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#been #changed #did #fallen #feel

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#been #bloodiest #change #conflict #encouraging

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#always #anyhow #asks #client #even