Janine di Giovanni Quotes
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.Janine di Giovanni
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
Rabih Alameddine -
The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster -
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 -
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill -
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith -
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 -
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba -
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
Walter Russell Mead -
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
Ian Anderson -
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
Larry MacPhail -
Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
Gary Herbert -
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter Cronkite
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βWar. There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space β it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole. All the torturing of Poles under arrest, the shooting of prisoners of war and their bestial treatment β that can never be justified either.β
Wladyslaw Szpilman -
I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.
Erma Bombeck -
I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.
Damian Kulash OK Go -
I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.
Warren Buffett -
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
Janine di Giovanni