I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Law is always better than war.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

History should be written as philosophy.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Society is at odds with itself.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘