War Quotes
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We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.
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The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
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The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
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At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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May not undermine the president as he leads us into war, and they may not give comfort to our adversaries, but they come mighty close.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
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Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.
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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic must awaken. The people must understand. Our safety lies in full realization the fate of the nation and the safety of the world will be decided on the western battlefront of Europe.
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This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
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War is not a courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. As it is now, war is the favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
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When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.
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I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
