War Quotes
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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When people go at war they cheapen things.
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The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
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Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
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The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
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If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
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War is the father and king of all.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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There is no such thing as closure for soldiers who have survived a war. They have an obligation, a sacred duty, to remember those who fell in battle beside them all their days and to bear witness to the insanity that is war.
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We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
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We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
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Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.
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The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
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Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military. Whereas my father had not fought. He was older and he was in a business that was considered essential to the wartime effort - the wire business - and, of course, I was so young I didn't understand any of this.
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Sending our youth to war is wrong.
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I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
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My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
