Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18 so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said 'You know you could really do this if you wanted to.'

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.

There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.

Really when it comes to gay rights there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

In order for a war to be just three things are necessary. First the authority of the sovereign. Secondly a just cause. Thirdly a rightful intention.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

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.

To become properly acquainted with a truth we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is to its victims the second it crushes the first it intoxicates. The truth is nobody really possesses it.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it it's true.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Nothing is beautiful only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.