War Quotes
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Government is waging war against the people.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.
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Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
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I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
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The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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Societies in which men were unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers, which is why I call the traditional role of men the role of killer-protector.
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Nine-eleven was an act of war. The villains aren’t the terrorists. The villains live in the White House.
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World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
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After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
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Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
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I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
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For days I have seen nothing but the most awful scenes that the human mind can imagine.. .Stay calm and don't worry: I will come back to you – the war will end this year. I must stop; the transport of the wounded, which will take this letter along, is leaving. Stay well and calm as I do. from the battlefield at Verdun
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Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
