#wars

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ↗

— Colman McCarthy

#between #everyone #like #meals #pacifist

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#attitude #blinders #choose #citizens #civil

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. ↗

— John Hoeven

#america #better #better place #continent #country

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. ↗

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

#goodness #ideas #live #medieval #over

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen! ↗

— J. J. Johnson

#black #composers #doing #ever #film

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#milieu #national #present #self-defense #wars

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't? ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#deal #first #had #i #issues

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#egg #hatched #kind #religion #wars