Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
wars
«America is addicted to wars of distraction»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts, America, distraction, distractions, wars
«I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
died young, Die in, dreaming, ears, Fed, fed up, feed in, up to, wars
«Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?»
«For the great Gaels of Ireland / Are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry, / And all their songs are sad.»
«Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated / there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.»
«If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Action,
Mankind
| Keywords:
acted, All of Us, fate, human being, individually, in unison, My Way, personally, poverty, responsible, responsible for, unison, wars
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
«Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
abyss, annihilation, begot, chain, chain reaction, impasse, modern world, or else, plunged, plunges, plunging, producing, reaction, This Modern World, wars