Quotes about "War & Peace"

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in. ”

In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission. ”

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict. ”

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. ”

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out. ”

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions. ”

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform. ”

There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow's work: 'The Hurt Locker' serves up a military equivalent of the thrill-trips that Lenny Nero was hustling in her earlier 'Strange Days.' ”

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel. ”

We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable. ”