War Quotes
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The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.
Elaine Pagels
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Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?
Taliesin
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U Thant
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
Yoko Ono
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. Taylor
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
John Salazar
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
Bret Stephens
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Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
Albert Einstein
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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
Primo Levi
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
Imelda Staunton
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
Wendell Berry
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
Samuel Adams
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
Eamon de Valera
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It is not an opinion that 'enhanced interrogation techniques' are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.
Andrew Sullivan
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Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke.
John Donne
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Hans Rosling
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
Albert Einstein
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Hey baby, what'cha know good?I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would.War is hell, when will it end?When will people start gettin' together again?
Marvin Gaye
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Aristotle