War Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Winocour
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kamal Haasan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonathan Haidt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Oh, it sounds ridiculous, I know, in Britain in the twentieth century, but I learned in the war that civilization anywhere is a very thin crust.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Buchan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Van Hollen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Max Schmeling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vladimir Putin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The IMF and World Bank are still appalling, and now the World Trade Organisation too. All over the world people die unnecessarily because of the international financial system. Every year the international financial system kills more people than World War II. But at least Hitler was mad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ken Livingstone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As long as 1911, when I was still a member of the Socialist Party, I wrote that the Gordian knot of Trent could be cut only by the sword. At the same date I declared that war is usually the prelude to revolution. It was therefore easy for me, when the Great War broke out, to predict the Russian and the German revolutions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Benito Mussolini
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am speaking for tens of millions, and maybe more, around the world, who know the truth about Iraq. Who know that the real criminals are in Washington. Not in the United Nations. The real criminals are in the White House, not in the Elysee Palace. The real criminals are in the Congress, not in the anti-war movement.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Galloway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cordell Hull
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Monette