The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

People like to talk about war.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

The earth laughs in flowers.

War settles nothing.

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

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.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

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

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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?

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

War is the province of danger.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

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.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.