Quotes about "War & Peace"

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. ”

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ”

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case. ”

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. ”

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. ”

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter. ”

It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts. ”

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do. ”

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets. ”

A lot of labels always feel the need to tell you how they think the music should be marketed and what songs work best where. I say make music you love doing, come up with a strategy, and put it out there. ”