War Quotes
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.
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I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
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I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
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We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.
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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.
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Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
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War,--the trade of barbarians!
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In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
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Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.
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In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.
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There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
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We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.
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Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."
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From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.
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Wealth wants to be able to do whatever the fuck it wants to... And it's winning the war.
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.
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Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
