David Warren

“As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them,”
― Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

“[ ... ]when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[....]”
― John Newton

“Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.”
― Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning