War Quotes
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And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.
Chris Matthews
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I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
Sebastian Junger
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
William Halsey
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As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.
Dennis C. Blair
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
Angelina Jolie
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
Walter Cronkite
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Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?
Pat Buchanan
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In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
John le Carre
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I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
Angelina Jolie
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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
Alice Oswald
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Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.
Rachel Grady
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
David Bailey
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In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.
Philip Caputo
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The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.
Michel Foucault
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Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
Joe Haldeman
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Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
Jim Cooper
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We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.
Cindy Sheehan
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By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
Jane Leavy
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When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
Daniel J. Evans
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Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J. William Fulbright
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George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.
Marc Rich
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb