“We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.” FeelsHumansWarHandsHumanityNaturalLossEnvironmentResourcesPropertyDestroyedDestructiveNatural ResourcesUneasyHuman Hands Author:Nong ?uc Manh
“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being” MenGivingMeanWarPlayFeelingsLawUsedJoyFightingNaturalAnimalViolenceBloodMilitaryDangerWeaponsSpringHatredDifficultyAngryAffectionCrueltyBreastsRemoveCarrieFacultySageVeinsPerilHornsNatural LawHatred And LoveMilitary WeaponsViolence And Cruelty Author:Sima Qian
“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.” WorldIdeasWarEndsMomentsProblemActionSciencePoliticalHumanitySocialNatureNaturalConsciousnessConditionsCapitalismCrisisClimateClimate ChangeSpreadLikesAround The WorldAccomplishedCollectivesMidstThat MomentSpheresMainstreamTailsHostile80sLapIdeologicalMagnitudeCrusadesSocial ConditionsCollective Action Author:Naomi Klein
“We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.” WarMightNaturalTechnologyIssuesInformationExampleTerrorDisasterInvolvingWar On TerrorInformation TechnologyNatural Disaster Author:Cass Sunstein
“If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.” IfsWorldWantFirstsHumansHeartWarMotivationalTermRealizingNaturalJusticeEnemySkinsMinoritiesWandsRascalsNatural Enemies Author:Alan Watts
“War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.” WarStatesOrderNaturalViolenceConditionsInstrumentsOrganizedTreatmentBehalfAvoidedHygienePathology Author:Philip Bobbitt
“This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast war is largely ignorance, that most of our citizens do not realize what is going on under their very feet.” WarRealizingNaturalFeetIgnoranceCitizensWeaknessDestructionFinishedAssets Author:Louis Bromfield
“The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.” KindWarNaturalExampleEssentialsMassVariousPsychologicalFactorsSubstitutesAggressionBrutalGratificationSuppressionSadism Author:Wilhelm Reich
“I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.” ChildrenHas BeensWarCountryMotherNaturalSeeingBenefitsResourcesOur ChildrenTiredIraqHearingDestroyedOur CountryDirtyBossAssetsScreamLoved OnesTroopsNatural ResourcesBuryingDirty Work Author:Cindy Sheehan
“The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.” MenIdeasWarStarsNaturalPovertyCenturyConceptionPollutionCatastropheExplorersDevastation Book:Of A Fire On The Moon Source: Of A Fire On The Moon
“War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.” WarPlayEarthGrowsNaturalConditionsPlantSoilHavocNatural History Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.” WarCharacterNaturalSubjectsProduceDramaSceneConflictElementsSeekingNovelistsMemorableTopicsScreenwritersGreat Character Author:Steven Pressfield
“The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.” ThinkingYearsBelieveHumansChildrenLongDoeWarMomentsLastsCultureI BelieveBornNaturalMillionsCivilizationConsequenceBreathsEndureDefenseViolentHuman LifeConceptionJudgedUnbornUnborn ChildViolent Death Author:Rand Paul
“No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.” IfsWorldArtWarMatterPainJoyLiteratureNaturalPoorExistenceHappeningsNo Matter WhatFilledDisasterWar Of The WorldsLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneFulfillingNatural DisasterArt MusicPoor Health Author:Karen DeCrow
“The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.” ChildrenWarLostNationsParentNaturalUnitedMillionsAidsDisasterReportsFundUnited NationsStarvationNatural Disaster Author:Foster Friess
“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.” WarDifficultNaturalRiskDangerousDisasterViolentZoneProtestNatural DisasterWar Zones Author:Kate Adie
“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis” IfsMenDoeSaidWarReasonPhilosophySeemsCausesNaturalRichLandEffectsKingsRelationRelateDependentEvidentRich ManCometsVapor Author:Albertus Magnus
“Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.” DoeWarDreamReligionNaturalMoralCrimeExampleMoralityCivilizationEthicsWeakAidsSignificantConclusionOur TimeOur DreamsMaintainingWarrantsSavageryMoral Life Book:The Lessons of History Source: The Lessons of History
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.” HumansWarFormPeaceNaturalImpossiblePeriodsChaosAvailableThirst Author:Frank Herbert
“Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.” PeopleWarTogetherPoliticalChangeNaturalViolenceCrimeDecidedTreatsCrisisClimateClimate ChangeHumanitarianDrivenDisasterOrganizedFewerContinentsGangNatural DisasterOrganized CrimePolitical ViolenceGang Violence Author:Jan Egeland
“What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.” PeopleMenWantSaidWarWould BeFightingNaturalSleepCitiesAirBuildingResponseBlowBritishRageReactionsBunchConfusionBombingCowardlyRetaliationPuzzling Author:Nicholson Baker