This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by... 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dead have been awakened--shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?... The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, Its echo in my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneat...h the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every ...nation chosen to be a nation--none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You protest too much.... You cannot tolerate a faith in humanity, because if you do, all this, the structure of your very existenc...e, which you have built on hate and vengeance, all this will collapse around the naked lie of your life. You are a beaten man at war with the dictates of his heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavour to make an ...impossible peace with it--that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one ano...ther, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals o...f a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toning ...down the sensitiveness of the feelings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »