One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

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.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

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

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

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

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

War is the province of danger.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

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

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

War is what happens when language fails.