Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles and everyone wins.
Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.
Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises meditation and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
In every truth the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political I can't do anything about that.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
I want everyone to tell me the truth even if it costs him his job.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Not everyone can see the truth but he can be it.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity every crack in the common front against fascism.
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.