Charles Wadsworth
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Richard Wagner
Joy is not in objects, it is in us.
Friedrich Waisman
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
Lech Walensa
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, is service to a fellow human being.
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia co-founder)
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
Saying on Wall Street
There are no victims on Wall Street, just fools.
William Wallace
Every man dies; but not every man lives.
Horace Walpole
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Toby Walsh
Technology will inevitably get creepy unless we put safeguards in place.
Computers are deterministic machines that simply follow the instructions in their code.
The right to privacy is a response to the ability of new technology to surveil us without our consent.
We are always playing catch-up in our attempts to protect people's privacy against the encroachment of new technologies.
Privacy appears to play an important role within human society, providing, for example, space for contemplation, dissent and change.
Technology giveth and technology taketh away. … For every advantage a new technology offers there is always a corresponding disadvantage.
Our future is not infallible super-intelligence and immortality. That is the future of our machines. Our future is the opposite, ever fallible and mortal.
Machines … are made of the wrong stuff to be moral beings.
If we can't build moral machines, … we should limit the decisions we hand over to machines.
(all above ‘Machines Behaving Badly - the Morality of AI’)
Barbara Walters
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Hellmut Walters
Everything has two sides. Fanatics see only one.
Sam Walton
High expectations are the key to everything.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
John Wanamaker
Half of the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don't know which half.
William Arthur War
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long you miss them.
Andy Warhol
Success is what sells.
I am a deeply superficial person.
Art is what you can get away with.
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
H.M. Warner (Warner Brothers 1927)
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Booker T.Washington
No race can prosper 'til it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
Larissa Waters
Poverty is a political choice.
Education should be free for all.
Politicians should work for the people, not the highest bidder.
Remember: politicians who don't want to talk about climate change during a climate disaster are normally the ones taking coal and gas dollars.
Don Watson
Fascism makes the weak feel strong.
You will never sell a policy that you have to explain.
A shared ideology binds a nation together far more powerfully than self-interest.
James Watson
It is necessary to be slightly under-employed if you are to do something significant.
Lyall Watson
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Nature has a way of turning out to be partly what is, and partly what we want it to be. ('Lifetide')
Thomas Watson (chairman IBM alleged to have said 1943)
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Paul Watzlawick
In the choice of your parents you cannot be careful enough.
Evelyn Waugh
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
James Owen Weatherall (with Cailin O'Connor)
The urge to conform is a profound part of the human psyche.
The most effective misinformation starts with seeds of truth. (both 'Scientific American Sept. 2019)
Paul Wegener
Experience is the sum of all the follies one was able to commit without breaking one's neck.
Herbert Wehner
It is better to die as a wolf than to live as a dog.
Steven Weinberg
Most scientists don't hink enough about God to be called atheists.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Science does not make it impossible to believe in God. It just makes it possible to not believe in God.
The great equations of modern physics are a permanent part of scientific knowledge , which may outlast even the beautiful cathedrals of earlier ages.
There are good people and bad people. Good people do good things, and bad people do bad things. When good people do bad things, it is religion.
Max Weinrich (Specalist in Yiddish)
A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
Chaim Weizmann
I head a nation of a million presidents.
Nothing is more dangerous than a small man nursing his grievances.
Raquel Welch
Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Fay Weldon
Be good and you'll be happy. Be happy and you'll be good.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
H.G.Wells
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect on men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. ('The Invisible Man')
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Ida B. Wells
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Orson Welles
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Irvine Welsh
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life.
Wen Jiabao
The wish and the will of the people are not stoppable. Those who go along with the trend will thrive, and those who go against the trend will fail.
Wim Wenders
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Li Wenliang
A healthy society should have more than one voice.
Kanye West
Haters are fans too.
Mae West
A hard man is good to find.
I've been on more laps than a napkin.
I used to be snow white ... but I drifted.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
I generally avoid temptation... unless I can't resist it.
Is that a gun in your pocket, or you just glad to see me?
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
It ain't the men in my life, it's the life in my men that counts.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
I go for two kinds of men: the kind with muscles, and the kind without.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before.
Morris L.West
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Rebecca West
He is every other inch a gentleman.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Western Union (internal memo 1876)
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
of no value to us.
John Archibald Wheeler
Where there's smoke, there's smoke.
We are just children looking for answers.
If you haven't found something strange during the day it hasn't been much of a day.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
At the heart of everything is a question, not an answer. When we peer down into the deepest recesses of matter or at the farthest edge of the universe, we see, finally, our own puzzled faces looking back at us.
Lyn White
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Patrick White
When does future become present? (‘Voss’)
Nothing comforts like worn opinion. (‘Riders in the Chariot')
Clever people are the victims of words. (‘Riders in the Chariot')
Haste is disastrous to fiction and cookery.
Each morning is, like the creative act, the first. (‘Voss’)
Faith is never faith unless it is to be wrestled with. (‘Riders in the Chariot')
People have a habit of making truth suit the occasion. (‘Voss’)
Man is God decapitated. That is why you are bleeding. (‘Voss’)
Those who pass judgement always exclude themselves. (‘Riders in the Chariot')
To make yourself it is also necessary to destroy yourself. (‘Voss’)
I forgot what I was told. I only remember what I have learned.
A moment can become eternity, depending on what it contains. (‘Riders in the Chariot')
Men fall in love, over and over again, but it is always with themselves. (‘Voss’)
If you live and suffer long enough in a place, you do not leave it altogether. Your spirit is still there. (‘Voss’)
The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
(‘Voss’)
Happy are the men who are able to tread transitional paths, scarcely looking to left or right and without distinguishing an end. (‘Riders in the Chariot')
Friendship is two knives. They will sharpen each other when rubbed together, but often one of them will slip and slice off a thumb. (‘Riders in the Chariot'
Gough Whitlam
Only the impotent are pure.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Walt Whitman
I know of nothing but miracles.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Hugh White
Alliances are never ends in themselves. They are simply tools to achieve policy objectives.
The way to survive and prosper in times of rapid strategic change is not to cling to an old and unsustainable vision of order which is out of step with the new distribution of power, but to help build a new one that matches the new realities better with all the difficult compromises that must entail.
Elie Wiesel
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
Martin Wight
Great power status is lost, as it is won, by violence. A great power does not lie in its bed.
Oscar Wilde
The final mystery is oneself.
Nothing succeeds like excess.
Punctuality is the thief of Time. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
Only the shallow know themselves.
There is no Mystery so great as Misery. ("The Happy Prince")
Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth.
The one duty we owe to history is to re-write it.
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper. ("The Young King")
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Dont cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. ("Lord Arthur's Crime")
I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ("The Model Millionaire")
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
Insincerity ... is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
("The Young King")
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ("The Soul of Man under Socialism")
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
I may have said the same thing before... the explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
One charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
There's only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. ("The Picture of Diroan Gray")
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it's the faithless who know love's tragedies. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. ("Woman of No Importance")
Billy Wilder
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Thornton Wilder
The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Wendell Wilkie
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Richard Wilkinson
If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.
Mike Willesee
If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.
Robin Williams
Death is nature's way of saying: your table's ready.
Robyn Williams
No mater what anybody tells you – words and ideas can change the world.
The best way to invent the future is to build onn the best of the past. It's how civilisations flourish.
('Turmoil: Letters from the Brink')
Tennessy Williams
I don't want realism, I want magic. (Blanche DuBois ‘A Streetcar Named Desire')
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
We're all of us just guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is a work in progress.
Gary Wills
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Harold Wilson
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Don Wilson
When tigers fight, one is killed, and the other is mortally wounded.
Only the Americans could have a 'new' future, as opposed to an 'old' one.
Never consider the possibility of success – consider only the impossibility of failure.
Edward O.Wilson (US scientist)
Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
It was a misfortune for the living world... that a carnivorous primate and not some more benign form of animal made the breakthrough.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
Harry Windsor
History ignored is history repeated.
Tony Windsor
The world is run by those who turn up.
Oprah Winfrey
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.
The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Johann Joachim Winkelmann
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
Don Winslow
A war is a lot of work. ('The Cartel')
Vengeance always has a cost. (‘Broken’)
Put your past in the past. ('The Gentlemen's Hour')
Don't get old – it's a mistake. ('The Border')
Plans have a way of going wrong. (‘The Power of the Dog’)
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ('The Border')
Money and politics are ice and beans. ('The Border')
When the devil comes, it is with full hands. ('The Border')
Because the ocean is too big to cross alone. ('The Gentlemen's Hour')
Satan can only tempt you with what you have. (all following: 'The Cartel')
People who get their money rarely ask questions. (‘Broken’)
Rich people always have options - that's how it works. ('The Border')
“Father” and “Mother” are verbs before they're nouns. (‘Broken’)
You have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky. ('The Cartel')
'What if' – the two most powerful words in any language. (‘The Power of the Dog’)
There are two fighters in every fight, and one of them loses. ('City on Fire')
A cheap condom can be far more expensive than a good one. ('The Border')
The only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one. ('Power of the Dog')
Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it for a long time. ('The Cartel')
There is a word for a man who believes in coincidence: the defendant. (‘Broken’)
Watching the sun sink over the ocean, you have to believe in God the Artist. (‘Broken’)
It is one thing to give your life for something, another thing to give it for nothing. ('The Border')
Nothing is more persistent, more patient, than the past. After all, the past has nothing but time. (‘City of Dreams’)
The hardest thing in the world isn't to refrain from committing an evil, it's to stand up and stop one. ('Power of the Dog')
The so-called Mexican drug problem isn't the Mexican drug problem. It's the American drug problem. ('The Cartel')
No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word “heartache”. (‘Broken’)
The best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out. (‘Broken’)
The past is a dogged pursuer. a pack of wolves relentlessly running you down. Maybe it's better to turn and face it. ('The Cartel')
The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They are done by compromised people doing the best they can. ('The Border')
Courts, lawyers, police, prisons - we are more addicted to the war on drugs than to the drugs against we wage the war. ('The Border')
A border is something that that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no real wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst. ('The Border')
Shelley Winters
I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
Jeanette Winterson
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was. (‘Stone Gods')
Tim Winton
Being afraid means you are alive and awake.
The end of the world begins in the sea we love.
Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.
We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.
The desert is a spiritual place we vaguely understand.
The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.
Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through a day.
The notion that love is abroad in the world has shaped my life.
Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.
Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.
Past tense offers authority, distance; and present tense offers emotional immediacy.
Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.
It's funny, but you never think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - … Whenever I sank into them I felt free.
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
The human will to control is as much about asserting power over your own body as exercising it on others ('Breath')
If we love the sea as much as we claim to we do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy.
Otherwise we might as well take up golf.
For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos.
It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.
All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling knowing you might bequeath
a full dose of nothing to those who come after you.
We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it
gets you halfway there. Daring to try.
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they are
what keeps life from being meaningless.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hell is not other people; it is yourself.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. ('The Adventures of Sally')
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
Terry Wogan
Television contracts the imagination, and radio expands it.
Peter Wohlleben
A tree is only as strong as the forest that surrounds it.
Tom Wolfe
We are now in the Me decade.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Real estate development is a good business to get into - and a good business to get out of (‘Man in Full’)
Chris Womersley
You cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. ('Bereft')
Penny Wong (on political life)
Cooperate where we can, disagree where we must, and engage in our national interest
We take the world as it is, but we seek to shape it for the better – you have to have purpose and priciple, but you also have to have pragmatism.
James Woodford
Seen through the prism of climate change, Sydney starts to look like a city under siege.
Virginia Woolf
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Old age they say is like this; but it isn't. It's different. ('The Years')
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Alexander Woollcott
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Sir Henry Wotton
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Lawrence Wright
Diseases have a history of stirring up conspiracies.
We believe that nature is no match for human ingenuity, and that nature can be tamed. Pompeii reminds us
that the incomparable ferocity will never be fully tamed. (both ‘End of October’)
Thomas Wright of Durham
I can never look upon the Stars without wondering why the whole World does not become Astronomers.
J.C.Wylie (Admiral)
The aim of war is some measure of control over the enemy.
The ultimate determinant in a war is the man on the scene with a gun. This man is the ultimate power in war. He is control. He determines who wins.