War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Gautama Buddha

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Dorothy Parker

I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me.

Langston Hughes, The Black Man S

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Little Richard

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Ville Valo

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

SunTzu

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Leigh Steinberg