"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

War, Enemy, Future, States

"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

Juan Cole, American Educator

War, Thought, Iraq, Nationalism

"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

June Carter Cash, American Musician

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"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

War,

"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

War, America, American, Intellectuals

"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

War, End, Fighting, Spirit

"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front."

Philip Gibbs, British Journalist

War, Conflict, Months, News

"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, American Actor

War, People, Insanity, Want

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

War, Man, Weapons

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

War, Endurance, Humanity, Conflict

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"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

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"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."

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"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."

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"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

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"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

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"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex."

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front."

"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."

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

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"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."

"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."

"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."

"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."

"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex."