Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

I think it's going to be a doosey. I mean, talk about a fistfight in a whorehouse.

When civil fury first grew high And men fell out they knew not why.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

War is unsettling.

Turkey is a plague spot … a breeder of wars

Places where violence is widespread and government ceases to function, the pace of development falls dramatically …

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

The future is Afghanistan.

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.