“People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldBelieveWarEndsBeautifulCitiesCarAreasWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IBerlinDetroitReally Beautiful Author:Leonard Slatkin
“I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.” WarNovelRichMilitaryRevolutionAreasCivil WarFarmsKentuckyMilitary History Author:Steve Zahn
“During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.” WellsWarSituationFireMilitaryColdAreasSouthVietnamCold WarMondayAirportsPersistentRocketsPersonnelArtilleryEvacuationSaigon Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975
“War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.” WayWarDiseaseAreasGood Health Author:Jimmy Carter
“The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.” WarHandsBlackMilitaryArmsRacismGunAreasPoliceSoldierActivismSecureRacistVietnamEstablishmentExploitationPolicemen Author:Huey Newton
“While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.” MenWarYoungSeriousMountainAreasYoung ManWildernessTouchingHumankindUnfortunate Author:David R. Brower
“The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.” PeopleWorldWarCountryPresidentMillionsSawsColdAreasComplainingCollectionsCommunistTyrantsRegimesDictatorCold WarRecognizingWorld HistoryGreat Country Author:Barry Goldwater
“Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.” WarGovernmentWould BeUsedForceGroupsCitizensAreasFoundationPillarsPhysical Force Author:Ludwig von Mises
“I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to them as the Great War, and the war to end all war, and show them that we're still engaged in armed conflict in the same area, I'm not sure that they would be pleased about what their sacrifices amounted to.” IfsMenStillsWarEndsShowsWould BeYoungWonderSacrificeConflictAreasYoung ManNot SureEngagedGreat WarArmed Conflict Author:Russell Crowe
“The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.” WantLongWarFormCoursesBitsSpaceWonderExampleDramaLong TimeModelsAreasExcitingVariousCivil WarEmpiresMeant To BeMy FutureRevoltAssassinationRoman EmpireGood ExamplesInterstellar Author:Ann Leckie
“But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.” ImportantWarStatesMightWantedFoundUnderstandingDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesSawsSecurityMilitaryOffersAreasPreparedTherapyNational SecurityTalibanSavageryIndictmentUnited States Military Author:Karl Rove
“The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.” PeopleKindWarCountryMomentsSeemsGovernmentIssuesFocusEconomicParticularDevelopmentAreasArgumentLeavingTerrorismEastCertaintyPresent MomentPaceDefeatedEconomic DevelopmentTrajectoryLack Of Confidence Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
“It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.” PeopleIfsKindWarStatesWantedCoursesDifficultNumbersGroupsExampleActivityAreasTradeOilTerroristAlternativesIslamicZoneControlledTerritoryTaxationOrganisedIslamic StateWar ZonesSmugglingTerrorist Groups Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.” PeopleThinkingWayChildrenDoeWarRealShowsPoliticalDealsCareersPositionAreasDisasterZoneRevealingClichePosition Of PowerWar ZonesReally Popular Author:Tim Daly
“I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.” BookWarReadingStudySeaSubjectsFiguresKeysBattleWeaponsPicksDiscoveryAreasAspectCuriosityVariousLondonExpertsCivil WarExplorationDocumentariesAmerican Civil WarNelsonDickensNauticalMagellan Author:Gary Paulsen
“How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.” ThinkingTwoWarDoneStoriesSawsMiddleExampleAreasEastSettingSettingsImmigrantsMiddle EastTornRefugeeSymbolicMigrantsFleeingSetting An Example Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.” WorldWayFirstsHumansWellsMeanWarAgeStrongLossGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsPeriodsElementsAreasOptimismRegardCrisisPatternsWell BeingWar Of The WorldsWorld War IScratchesAdvancingDisillusionFirst World WarLoss Of Faith Author:George Pattison
“If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.” IfsWorldLooksWarStatesFireInfluenceStageCallingRight NowAreasStandingWesternIraqDivisionAfghanistanSyriaInterventionPitsLibyaMuslim WorldShia Author:Louis Farrakhan
“In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.” MenWarEventsBirthAdvantageAreasRateMutationAtomic WarBirth Rate Author:William S. Burroughs
“There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the other two, right on immigration but not interested in the other two. It is this writer's belief that [Donald] Trump is the first one to come along, despite what a big buffoon everybody says he is. He is the only guy that's put his finger on the problems and the comprises and the areas that need to be addressed in order to owe direct the route which our country is traveling.” NeedsFirstsHas BeensTwoWarCountryProblemBigsGuyOrderBeliefTrumpAreasDirectTradeFingersImmigrationDespiteOur CountryCandidatesNot InterestedRoutesBuffoons Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria.” FirstsLooksWarRealityDifficultCitiesSituationAreasOppositesWestTerroristVillageSyriaCiviliansDifficult SituationsEmbargo Author:Bashar al-Assad
“In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.” WarDifficultLosesAnswersLosingAreasStandstill Author:Bashar al-Assad
“In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south and mountains so high in some areas that helicopters don't even fly well at a certain altitude because the air becomes so thin. The country has a serious problem of illiteracy, especially after so many years of war and Taliban rule.” YearsWellsWarCountryProblemCertainAirBuildingSeriousMountainAreasSouthExtremesDesertAfghanistanInfrastructureTalibanRebuildingHelicoptersTerrainIlliteracy Author:David Petraeus
“First and foremost is to not allow the reestablishment, if you will, of an extremist sanctuary that can export the kind of terror that ended up with terrorists taking down the World Trade Center and plowing into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. That's the point: We started this war because the Sept. 11 attack came from this area. And we do not fight alone, but with some 40 allies who share that view.” IfsWorldFirstsKindWarFightingViewsShareFieldsAreasTradeTerrorTerroristAlliesSanctuaryExtremistPennsylvaniaPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSept 11Plowing Author:David Petraeus
“John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels control. This reminds me - what Kerry said - about the big lie that Collin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the WMD in Iraq before going to war. He said "this is our evidence."” WorldSaidWarBigsLyingFrontsEvidenceAreasOppositesIraqConvictionThrownRebelMissilesSatellitesJohn KerryWmdWell SaidGoing To WarWmds In Iraq Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.” WarStatesFourLandAreasArmyDecadesSyriaFrontiers Author:Bashar al-Assad
“It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.” ShouldWarReligiousLinesClearAreasShould HaveSyriaGeographySectsReligious WarsDemography Author:Bashar al-Assad
“They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.” IfsThinkingWayWarMomentsTalkingAreasDareLoudExpertsRudeStressfulKatie Author:Byron Katie
“For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.” WorldMadeWarUseAreasLocalsInstanceWar Of The WorldsWorld War IReservedPersianMiniaturesGulf WarPersian Gulf Author:Paul Virilio
“By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which happens to be an Arab area, not Persian. Khuzestan is Arab, has been loyal to Iran, fought with Iran not Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. This is a potential source of dissension. I would be amazed if there isn't an attempt going on to stir up secessionist elements in Khuzestan.” IfsWorldHas BeensWarHappensWould BeSourceElementsMajorsResourcesAreasIraqOilAccidentsIranLoyalAmazedGeographyIraq WarPersianDissension Author:Noam Chomsky
“I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.” WarGrewMountainAreasTwentiesCivil WarVillageFlavorPillarsBarcelonaSpanish Civil War Author:Colm Toibin
“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.” IfsWayDifferentWarLeftNationsParticularPlanetsAmountAreasDestructionPressureDown AndShipsNosesDifferent WaysCaptureDozenCatastropheMissilesDeliveringSelectiveWholesaleLeft Handed Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.” IfsYearsHumansHas BeensWarWould BeAbleWaterRightsSourceAuthorityAreasUltimateAbuseClimateEnvironmentalHuman RightsTraditionalTensionControlledSuppliesObscenityErosion Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.” MenFeelsShouldWarEyeHe ManAreasShould HaveMercyFaultsSizePityLimitlessHateful Author:Yamamoto Tsunetomo
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.” WorldHas BeensStillsDifferentWarReasonTogetherAmericaSufferingGrowsPresidentAnimalCenturyColorAreasLaborFunctionSlaveImmigrationInequalityWar Of The WorldsPotFarmsCrucialHostWorld War IiWorld War IPerilNationalityMeltingEmancipationWild AnimalMelting PotSlave Labor Author:Theodore Hesburgh