"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."

War, Ambiguity

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"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell, British Author

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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, American Director

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

Arthur Keith, Scottish Scientist

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"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it."

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"I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man."

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"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

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"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."

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"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."

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"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs."

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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."

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