War Quotes
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Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
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We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
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We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
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I will continue to push for solutions to eliminate reliance on hired guns to provide security in war zones.
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What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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My job is to cover the hell out of the story, very aggressively. The real place to be courageous if you're a news organization is where you put your people to cover the story. It's making sure that you have people going to Baghdad. It's making sure that you figure out how to cover the war in Afghanistan. While the journalist in me completely stands with them, the editor of the New York Times in me thinks my job is to figure out what the hell happened and cover the hell out of it, and that's more important than some symbolic drawing on the front page.
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In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
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It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
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War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.
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You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.
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Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.
