Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. xii
“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”
Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. xiii
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(1904–2005) Chinese novelist
A Battle For Life (July 1958)
Context: This was a good beginning. All the outmoded rules of the hospital were broken. Minds which had been tied down by subservience to foreign experience were now set in motion. People began to speak, to think and to act boldly. A new world opened in front of them. They knew that what they were doing now was something unprecedented which doctors in capitalist countries had not been able to do. They were engaged in a battle to save lives and as the scope of the battle became wider an increasing number of people were drawn in. Later on when a difficulty occurred in the course of treatment they solicited the opinions of many doctors both within and without the hospital, depending on the wisdom of the many to tide over one crisis after another.
“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
Chris Hedges
(1956) American journalist
“Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.”
George Marshall
(1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson
“France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.”
La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.
Poster À tous les Français (To All Frenchmen), August 1940.
À tous les Français was designed and displayed in London to accompany the Appel du 18 juin (Appeal of 18 June) following defeat at the Battle of France. The pair are considered to be the founding texts of the Résistance.
World War II
“Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.”
Arthur M. Jolly
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Every Battle, Every War (2007)
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.”
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
"Strike Against War", speech in Carnegie Hall (5 January 1916) http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/helenstrike.html
Context: Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
Louis Althusser
(1918–1990) French political philosopher
Source: Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays