Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

‚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.‘

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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 problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

The world is too violent right now.