War Quotes
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The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.
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I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
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The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.
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I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
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War is the father and king of all.
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I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.
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All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.
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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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I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
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N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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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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An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
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There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.
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In fact, he George Michael was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.
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Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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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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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
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If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war
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There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
