Frans de Waal Quotes
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack Obama
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. de Klerk
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
K. D. Lang
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
Nancy Sinatra
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
W. Averell Harriman
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
W. E. B. Du Bois
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We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
Ban Ki-moon
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
Ed Balls
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
Nana Mouskouri
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
Dan Abrams
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
Tariq Ali
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
Hamza Yusuf
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The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
Jerome Lawrence
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.
Ogden Nash
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I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
Frans de Waal