quotes about Peace War

last updated: November 28, 2023

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.
-- James Norton

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.”
“I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.”
“My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.”
“If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.”
“I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.”
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
“....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.”
“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.”
“The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.”

Source : "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.
“In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.