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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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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don’t control that. If politicians want a war we don’t control that. Acts of terrorism, we can’t control them.” -will.i.am
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“You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a…
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“As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.” -Daniel Morgan
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“If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.” -James Lovelock
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“The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow ‘Operation Re-elect Bush’ doesn’t seem to be popular.” -Jay Leno
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“The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.” -Lech Walesa
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“Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.” -Wendell Willkie
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“There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.” -John Cory
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“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.” -Twyla Tharp
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“I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it’s all in the uniform. Once you’re in it, it usually does all the work for you.” -Ryan Gosling
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“One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame.” -Edward Young
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“It’s a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.” -Julie Bowen
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“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.” -Ramsey Clark
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“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.” -George Porter
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“Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.” -B. H. Liddell Hart
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“Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.” -James A. Garfield
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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.” -Abu Abbas
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“Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.” -Michael Morpurgo
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“I remember an article, I can’t recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.” -Claude Chabrol
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“Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren’t civil war, they are democracy at work, and that’s beautiful.” -Sarah Palin
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“One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.” -George H. W. Bush
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“Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven’s sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.” -Russell Baker
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“There aren’t a lot of guys like me left. But I’m a war horse. I’ve been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.” -Joel Silver
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“There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.” -Harry Bridges
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“My mother’s sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.” -Buffalo Bill
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“Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.” -Denzel Washington
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“As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World…
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“We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.” -Peter Yarrow
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“War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.” -Margaret Sanger
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“Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.” -James Buchan
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“I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon’s urgings for me to go there.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.” -Howard Zinn
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“The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our ‘me’ generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.” -Gus Van Sant
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“The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren’t traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really…
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“9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.” -Michelle Malkin
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“America’s veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress’ action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.” -Bill Shuster
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“My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.” -Arlen Specter
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“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.” -Rebecca West
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“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.” -Lewis Thomas
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“It’s a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.” -George McGovern
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“The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It’s not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.” -Tony Blair
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“The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.” -Jon Meacham
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“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.” -William Glasser
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“If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.” -Alveda King
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“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.” -Curtis LeMay
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“I remember the ’80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.” -John Cusack
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“It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.” -Herbert Hoover
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“We’ve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don’t want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.” -Ann Coulter
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“The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.” -Joni Mitchell
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“The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.” -Peggy Noonan
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“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.” -Clara Zetkin
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“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.” -William Hague
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“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.” -Francois Rabelais
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“If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.” -Dennis Prager
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“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.” -Bob Woodward
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“A state of war is not a blank check… when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.” -Richard Branson
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“I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it’s hard for young people today, don’t you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.” -Julia Child
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“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.” -Benjamin Carson
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“Cursed be he above all others Who’s enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.” -Anacreon
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“These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” -Elizabeth I
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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” -Stefan Zweig
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“I didn’t know a time when there wasn’t a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.” -David Bailey
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“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” -Joe Biden
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“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.” -Oliver Stone
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“As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a ‘Near Great’ even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.” -Thomas Frank
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“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.” -Gerry Adams
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“You might hold an ethical position that it’s wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a ‘good’ outcome.” -Peter Singer
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“Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.” -Howard Dean
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“Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.” -R. Lee Ermey
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“Accursed be he that first invented war.” -Christopher Marlowe
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“Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” -Abbie Hoffman
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“Don’t kid yourself. President Obama’s decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States’ ‘position of strength’ in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.” -Ron Fournier
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“Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” -Daryn Kagan
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“War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.” -Smedley Butler
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“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” -Mao Zedong
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“Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn’t care. This is war – not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that’s a victory he savors and desires – unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.” -John Podhoretz
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“And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.” -Shelby Foote
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“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war… I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it’s too late.” -Imelda Marcos
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“I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.” -Doris Lessing
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“You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.” -John Mayer
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“Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.” -Elizabeth Bowen
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“Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don’t even want to try. I don’t agree with that approach.” -Herman Cain
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“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.” -Ezra Pound
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“And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.” -Dick Gregory
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“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.” -Toni Morrison
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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” -Benito Mussolini
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“Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.” -Thomas Hardy
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“We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.” -Doc Hastings
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“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?” -John Milton
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“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.” -E. W. Howe
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“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.” -John Andrew Holmes
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“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.” -St. Jerome
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“No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let’s support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.” -Judy Biggert
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“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.” -Hannah Arendt
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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.” -Duke of Wellington
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“What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.” -David Cameron
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“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.” -Ernie Pyle
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“War is what happens when language fails.” -Margaret Atwood
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“To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.” -Alfred Adler
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“There’s no question that jihad historically means war.” -Pat Robertson
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“Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.” -Allan Massie
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“The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.” -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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“I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.” -Liam Neeson
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“American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.” -Camille Paglia
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“I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.” -Mel Brooks
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“On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.” -Stephen Harper
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“What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“I couldn’t be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.” -Larry David
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“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.” -Jessica Savitch
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“My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.” -Bjork
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“We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.” -Muammar al-Gaddafi
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“Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.” -Joseph A. Schumpeter
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“God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.” -Eamon de Valera
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“I don’t like war. I particularly don’t like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.” -Neil Young
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“Making peace is harder than making war.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.” -Madeleine Albright
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“I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.” -Karl Lagerfeld
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“There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.” -Alison Lurie
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“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.” -William Tecumseh Sherman
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“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.” -Martin Scorsese
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“I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.” -Marco Rubio
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“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” -Howard Thurman
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“The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.” -Marjane Satrapi
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“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.” -Amelia Earhart
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“The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?” -Imran Khan
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“I did a production of ‘Journey’s End,’ an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, ‘You know, you could really do this if you wanted…
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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.” -William Burroughs
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“The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he’d like to help, but he’s pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.” -Conan O’Brien
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“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” -Jimmy Carter
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“Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.” -Thor Heyerdahl
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“The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.” -Sophia Loren
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“Don’t worry about the war. It’s all over but the shooting.” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.” -Rick Warren
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“I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.” -Tom Cruise
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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” -Gertrude Stein
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“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.” -John T. Flynn
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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.” -George Will
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“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.” -Newt Gingrich
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“War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.” -Albert Pike
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“I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.” -Norman Schwarzkopf
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“I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.” -Golda Meir
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“Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.” -Andrew Jackson
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“All of Koons’s best art – the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century’s signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory – has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.” -Jerry Saltz
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“That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.” -Noel Coward
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“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.” -Yasser Arafat
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“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.” -Michael Badnarik
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“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.” -Umberto Eco
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“France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.” -Charles de Gaulle
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“I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” -Georges Clemenceau
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“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.” -Mick Jagger
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“War is the ultimate tool of politics.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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