“Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.” WarTypeColdOppositesUniversalIdeologyAppealsCold WarPutinMysticArchesMotherland Author:George Packer
“I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsBookWarDoneFeelingsHomeAgeThreeStuffWrittenDogBrotherTypePleaseRight NowCatArmyNineOld AgeWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IHomelessEightyFeels RightNine YearsDischargeTypingIndianapolisWhere Home Is Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.” IfsYearsLittlesSaidStillsWarDoneStoriesFiveFourWifeTypeCoupleOne DayPagesHumorousArmyMy WifeFinishedFive YearsIf I CouldShort StoryOperators Author:Carl Reiner
“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.” MeanWarStatesSocialTermMilitaryTypeCostShapesDestructionFunctionProductionsReadinessDrainedJust WarCost Of War Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.” WarWould BeEnergyStarsClearTypeCivilizationPlantOilTransitionCoalStellar Author:Michio Kaku
“Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.” WarDoneHelpingLyingWrittenReadyTypeCreaturesWinterConvincedJournalistCanadaRemedyRefugeBeatenYankeesSanctuary Author:Adolf Hitler
“What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.” MenWritingWellsMayTwoWarCharacterNationsDifficultAnswersRecordsTypeCuriousAlliesCowardiceEnteringInabilityAlarmsDifficult ThingsIncompetenceGreat WarHereditaryAnglo SaxonSusceptibilitySonatas Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.” WarSchoolFormTypeHabitArgumentMessConsiderationAviationCombatOfficersBloodyPublic SchoolAttackingPalsParachutesEton Author:James Ira Thomas Jones
“A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.” WarUseForceTypeCostRussiaAvoidedExternal Forces Author:Vladimir Yakunin
“When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.” WarLibertyTypeConflictTreatedCivil Liberties Author:Trent Lott
“I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.” IfsWorldYearsKindI CanWarEnoughProblemMightRememberNationsPlansImpossibleTypeAccomplishSolveOptimisticWar Of The WorldsAlsWorld War IiAirplaneWorld War IAutomobileGorePessimisticSecond World WarMobilization Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.” FeelsLooksSaidWarWantedMovingSubjectsStudentsTypeReflectionShotsSorryPhotographerAirplaneAngleHutsObeseCranes Author:Peter Menzel
“The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.” WorldWarEndsStatesFactsAmericaUnitedUnited StatesTypeBlindCongressWarmongers Author:Louis Farrakhan
“What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.” IfsGivingKindWarHappensKidsWantedGuyStarsSpaceTvsTypeMarriedEnormousSettingSettingsOperaFar AwayDictatorThis GuyThat GuyWisconsinWrong Guy Author:Mark Millar
“It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.” WritingKindLittlesDifferentWarBigsFunStarsInterestingGroupsTypeExerciseIncrediblesSettingSettingsVery Interesting Author:Mark Millar
“I think it may be that the fans of your least-favorite political candidate, whoever it is, are much more likable and light-side types than you might think going in. One way to reach them is to talk about Star Wars.” ThinkingWayMayWarLightMightPoliticalStarsSidesFansTypeOne WayCandidatesPolitical Candidates Author:Cass Sunstein