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Katherine Dunn on war
Author: Katherine Dunn“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.” -Katherine Dunn
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Rahm Emanuel on war
Author: Rahm Emanuel“The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?” -Rahm Emanuel
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Brad Pitt on war
Author: Brad Pitt“I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.” -Brad Pitt
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Ron Wyden on war
Author: Ron Wyden“Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.” -Ron Wyden
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Mira Nair on war
Author: Mira Nair“With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.” -Mira Nair
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Ringo Starr on war
Author: Ringo Starr“I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don’t remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.” -Ringo Starr
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Gavin DeGraw on war
Author: Gavin DeGraw“When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.” -Gavin DeGraw
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John W. Vessey, Jr. on war
Author: John W. Vessey, Jr.“Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they’re going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.” -John W. Vessey, Jr.
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Alan Dershowitz on war
Author: Alan Dershowitz“It’s never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.” -Alan Dershowitz
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J. G. Ballard on war
Author: J. G. Ballard“The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.” -J. G. Ballard
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Dick Cheney on war
Author: Dick Cheney“From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we’re engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.” -Dick Cheney
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Henry A. Wallace on war
Author: Henry A. Wallace“Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.” -Henry A. Wallace
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Dan Savage on war
Author: Dan Savage“The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.” -Dan Savage
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Omar N. Bradley on war
Author: Omar N. Bradley“We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” -Omar N. Bradley
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J. B. Priestley on war
Author: J. B. Priestley“Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.” -J. B. Priestley
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John le Carre on war
Author: John le Carre“I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.” -John le Carre
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Angela Merkel on war
Author: Angela Merkel“Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.” -Angela Merkel
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Daniel Boone on war
Author: Daniel Boone“May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!” -Daniel Boone
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Sloane Crosley on war
Author: Sloane Crosley“The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it’s a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.” -Sloane Crosley
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Graham Greene on war
Author: Graham Greene“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.” -Graham Greene
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Leon Panetta on war
Author: Leon Panetta“After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.” -Leon Panetta
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Nathan Bedford Forrest on war
Author: Nathan Bedford Forrest“I ended the war a horse ahead.” -Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Roberto Cavalli on war
Author: Roberto Cavalli“I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.” -Roberto Cavalli
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Dennis Chavez on war
Author: Dennis Chavez“We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.” -Dennis Chavez
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H. Rap Brown on war
Author: H. Rap Brown“Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.” -H. Rap Brown