"It is easier to make war than to make peace."

-- Georges Clemenceau

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Easier Quotes

“The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.”
“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
“We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.”
“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

Source : Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins
“Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.”

Source : Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (1960). “The Civil War”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.”
“Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.”

Source : "Focus on the good news in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff" by Julia Bacha, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.
“The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.”

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