Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Long before the migrant crisis, Sweden had codified its form of humanitarianism into the country's domestic and foreign-policy framework.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.

Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

Ыex is so huge and so amorphous. It's everything. It's not just pornography. It's not just cheating on a spouse. It can take so many forms.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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