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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘war’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.” -George Wald
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“Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.” -Bianca Jagger
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“My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.” -Bob Hawke
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“Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.” -George Soros
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“I’m actually reading ‘World War Z’ again! It’s incredibly realistic and it’s written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It’s incredible. When I finish ‘World War Z’ I’m going to go back and start again on…
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“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.” -Jeff Goodell
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“That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.” -Michael Ondaatje
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“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” -Jason Mraz
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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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“And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.” -Dana Rohrabacher
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“War is fear cloaked in courage.” -William Westmoreland
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“I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.” -Harry Browne
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“In time of peace prepare for war.” -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.” -Paul Wolfowitz
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“And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be ‘Civil War’ – not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.” -Michael Haneke
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“You cannot be politically correct in a war.” -Rupert Everett
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“I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.” -Sheryl Crow
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“We’re fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It’s a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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“I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.” -Robert Walpole
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“No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, ‘Ode to Lovely War,’ and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn’t sell me as Joyce…
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“I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.” -Chelsea Clinton
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“All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.” -Victor Cousin
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“No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their…
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“The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.” -Germaine Greer
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“Well, I’ve been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there’s no hope.” -Thom Yorke
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“War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.” -Ted Turner
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“In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.” -Phyllis Schlafly
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“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.” -Jim Ramstad
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“The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.” -Hamid Karzai
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“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.” -Conrad Black
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“I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.” -Zoe Saldana
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“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.” -Douglas William Jerrold
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“Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.” -Dennis Hastert
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“Nothing is more useless in developing a nation’s economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.” -King Hussein I
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“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.” -Stanislaw Lec
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“So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.” -Colin Quinn
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“We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.” -Arthur Henderson
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“I consider Bush’s decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.” -Jurgen Habermas
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“To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.” -Elihu Root
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“I think there’s a tremendous split between people who’ve been through a war and people who haven’t.” -Antonia Fraser
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“I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.” -Sharon Stone
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“War is by no means something glamorous, and I don’t think that should ever be forgotten.” -Curt Schilling
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“I frankly don’t think it’s going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can’t share information, there’s no way this war can be won.” -Patty Hearst
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“During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.” -Lionel Blue
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“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.” -Julien Benda
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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer – we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them – we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.” -Robert Capa
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“I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.” -Werner Herzog
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“Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.” -John Bolton
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“You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.” -Dougray Scott
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“My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.” -Eric Liu
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“I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.” -Nicolas Sarkozy
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“Detainee policy in this war is hard, it’s complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.” -Lindsey Graham
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“This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We’ve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.” -Maxine Waters
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“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt
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“Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.” -Carroll Quigley
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“I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.” -Charles Schumer
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“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.” -Michael Moore
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“When I was growing up, it was ‘Communists’. Now it’s ‘Terrorists’. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.” -Cindy Sheehan
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“You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.” -Geraldine Ferraro
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“It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.” -Major R. Owens
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“World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.” -Herman Kahn
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“One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear – the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don’t think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.” -Lawrence Eagleburger
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“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.” -Stephen Ambrose
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“I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.” -Robert Foster Bennett
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“Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?” -Oriana Fallaci
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“Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.” -Ellen Key
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“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.” -Wilfred Owen
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“The War on Drugs employs millions – politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military – that probably couldn’t find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.” -L. Neil Smith
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“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.” -Neville Chamberlain
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“During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“I’ve been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn’t pay for the dental work he needed.” -Matthew Lesko
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“With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They’re not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.”…
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“In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.” -Isabel Allende
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“Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.” -James Thomson
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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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“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.” -Walter Bagehot
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“After every war someone has to tidy up.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.” -Jane Smiley
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“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.” -Thomas Friedman
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“I want to start my own airplane business. I’m going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know, where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time.” -Gary Numan
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“You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.” -Sharron Angle
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“It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about…
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“War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.” -Dennis Kucinich
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“No, let’s make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.” -John Boehner
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“Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.” -Neil Sheehan
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“When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn’t exist anymore.” -Jarvis Cocker
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.” -Ron Wyden
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“I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.” -Brad Pitt
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“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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“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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“I think I’m just someone that just tries to get by. I’m kind of – if it was during the Second World War, I’d be a black marketeer, I think.” -Craig Ferguson
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“Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.” -Noam Chomsky
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“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.” -Jane Goodall
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“That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.” -Shimon Peres
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“I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic… That to me was funny.” -Christopher Meloni
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“People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I’m tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don’t like ‘Twilight,’ don’t buy a ticket.” -Anna Kendrick
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“Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.” -H. Rap Brown
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“We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.” -Dennis Chavez
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“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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“I ended the war a horse ahead.” -Nathan Bedford Forrest
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.” -King Abdullah II
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“There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.” -Saul Bellow
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“I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.” -Walter Mosley
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“What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.” -Terry Eagleton
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“I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.” -Harold Pinter
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“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.” -Wendell Phillips
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“War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.” -Marvin Gaye
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“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.” -Nancy Pelosi
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“This is a game. That’s all it is. It’s not a war.” -Jack Nicklaus
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“You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.” -James Hillman
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“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my…
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“I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.” -Jane…
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“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” -Loren Eiseley
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“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.” -John Foster Dulles
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“We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It’s a delusion to think it’s gone away.” -Kevin Costner
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“I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.” -Maya Lin
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“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.” -P. D. James
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“He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.” -Mario Puzo
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“My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.” -Herbert Read
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“All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.” -Gary Bauer
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“There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.” -Julie Burchill
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“I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.” -Dan Rather
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“The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war…
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“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.” -Cyril Connolly
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“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.” -Herodotus
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“War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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“I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.” -George Galloway
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“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.” -Rand Paul
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“My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.” -Haruki…
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“What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.” -Dennis Miller
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“What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War – both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There’s a pulse to it.” -Diane Kruger
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“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” -Elton John
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“I’m sure it is, I’m not for any kind of war, we’ve been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.” -Larry Hagman
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“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.” -Lester B. Pearson
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“War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“We didn’t start this war – the right wing did. We’re tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it’s about jobs and it’s about rebuilding America.” -James P. Hoffa
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“Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.” -Robert Taft
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“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.” -Lewis Mumford
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“Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.” -Karl Rove
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“We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.” -Margaret Cho
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“Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.” -Al Gore
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“Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.” -Harlan Coben
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“Look at an infantryman’s eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.” -William Alexander Henry
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“Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.” -Donald Berwick
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“I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.” -Gene Tierney
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