The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading. Alfred Nobel anvilbegincrimean share on social
Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education. Arthur Lewis childeducationgreat share on social
I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan. Andrew Cherng bearchinaend Change image and share on social
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. Andrew Taylor Still beginchildcivil Change image and share on social
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. Alexander Berkman blindbrutishcallousness Change image and share on social
I prefer the path of peace over war. Amar'e Stoudemire pathpeaceprefer Change image and share on social
I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided. Ambrose Burnside avoidcitizencultivate share on social
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. Antonio Tabucchi auschwitzexterminatefifty Change image and share on social
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. Allan Massie affairbadbadly Change image and share on social
