Best birth & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.”

People Men War Peace Blood Birth Shedding Blood

Author:Lucy Ellmann

“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.”

“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.”

Knows World Giving Important War Done Jobs Form Mother Force Pay Generations Sacrifice Birth Picks Labor Clean Sorry Cooks Nurse Diapers Important Jobs Zips Cheap Labor Labor Force

Author:Joanna Russ

“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.”

Said War States America History Struggle Rights Birth Unions Bitter Civil War Disputes Abraham American Civil War Gettysburg States Rights

Author:Bruce Catton

“Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.”

Men Children War Home Grows Waiting Growing Up Birth Coming Home Menopause

Author:Adrienne Rich

“And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?”

Knows Men Doe Two War Faces Asks Crime He Man Birth Dead Man

Author:Anna Howard Shaw

“Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.”

Men Want Giving War Feet Birth Fit Men And Women Dance

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.”

Men World War Fighting Sex Ignorance Birth Burden War Of The Worlds New World World War I Birth Control American Woman Old World Autocracy

Book:Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”

Writing War Ends Mother Courses Given Class Imagine Months Birth Skills Prepared Complexes Notion Nine Absurd Acquire Composition Naive Nine Months

Author:Mary Blakely

“You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.”

Knows Mind Ideas War Poor Birth Rate Hopefully Distraction Toss Exam Birth Rate

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.”

Men War Moments Birth Edges Life And Death Initiation

Book:Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace

Source: Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace

“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.”

World War Hard Young Found House Parent Born Childhood Birth Couple Married Built My Family Moved Block Paris War Of The Worlds Flats Apartment Suburbs Second World War Married Couples

Author:Richard Clayderman

“But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.”

Trying War Happens Knowing Economic Birth Currents Pregnancy Conception Collapse Derivatives Economic Collapse

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.”

War Film Stars Birth Computer Superhero

Author:William Friedkin

“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.”

Men War Events Birth Advantage Areas Rate Mutation Atomic War Birth Rate

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.”

War Ends Whole Political Rights Movement Birth Environmental Civil Rights American History Unjust Civil Rights Movement Crossroads Political Life Life Span Unjust War

Author:Barbara Boxer

“I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.”

Made War Given Birth Posts Zone Display Twins War Zones

Author:Tilda Swinton

“However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!”

War Home Space Type Birth Magnetic Naval Kosovo

Author:Paul Virilio

“Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.”

People War Country Political Next Water Birth Gold Population Diamond Slow Down Birth Control

Author:Evel Knievel

“Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.”

Ifs Giving Should Heart War Soul Light Would Be Earth Faces Spirituality Causes Birth Hatred Unity Division Dislike Disputes Baha

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.”

“I’ve never cheated on a lover. I’m faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone’s feelings. Every time.” Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she’d ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she’d given birth to Gwen’s grandmother.”

War Feelings Given Doubt Birth Lovers Mets Battle Males Faithful Grandmother Wow Grandfather Burned Cheated Great Grandfather Great Grandmother Cheated On

Book:Lords of the Underworld Collection 2: The Darkest Whisper\The Darkest Passion\The Darkest Lie

Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 2: The Darkest Whisper\The Darkest Passion\The Darkest Lie

“In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.”

“At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”

Knows Firsts Littles War Ends Stories Might Left Forget Mistake Heard Birth One Day Thousand Comfortable Tragedy Criminals Graves Coincidence Forget It Charlie Larks War Stories Small Mistakes

Author:Holly Black

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"”

“We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.”

Believe Children War Whole Age Form Poor Numbers Birth Solutions Program Claims Jew Hey Abortion Genocide Birth Control Extermination

Author:Dorothy Day

“War rages on the teeming earth; The hot and sanguinary fight Begins with each new creature's birth: A dreadful war where might is right; Where still the strongest slay and win, Where weakness is the only sin.”

Men Stills War Might Earth Fighting Winning Sin Birth Creatures Weakness Hot Rage Strongest Might Is Right

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.”

People Children War Government Kids Pain Young Suffering Order President Company Birth Substance Cheat Anguish Insurance Companies

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.”

World Should Trying War States United United States Democracy Conditions Military Danger Taught Birth Vietnam Policemen Vietnam War Taught Us Midwife Guerrillas

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

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