War Quotes
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Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
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In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
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No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort.
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My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.
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We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.
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I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
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Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.
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You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
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The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.
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We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
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We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.
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The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.
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Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.
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I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
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War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.
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Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
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What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.
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All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
