War Quotes
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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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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.
H. W. Brands
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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
Albert Einstein
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When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
Alex Gibney
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On August 2, 1914, I took Braque and Derain to the Gare d'Avignon drafted as a soldier for World war 1. I never saw them again not literally a fact, but the close relation between Picasso and Braque ended.
Pablo Picasso
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In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.
Chelsea Manning
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Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, underground caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!
Otto Dix
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
Janet Flanner
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly Simon
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
Yoko Ono
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I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.
Jeremy Corbyn
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
J. F. C. Fuller
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
Olavo de Carvalho
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
Douglas Hurd
