Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi raise aphids as livestock launch armies into war use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves engage in child labour exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is we like a good fight.
Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
As you may recall Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953 thanks largely to the Korean War. Today however he is thought to have been a solidly good president a 'Near Great' even in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
So I would say God hates war but God loves every soldier.
First of all Saddam did not win the war even though he says he did I mean you know that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles and everyone wins.
Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.
Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises meditation and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.