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War Quotes
"The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues."
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"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."
57
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
45
"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."
38
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative."
War,
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"It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy."
37
"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account."
36
"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
35
"Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over."
33
"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."
32
"But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War."
31
"Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?"
31
"The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together."
War,
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"War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven."
30
"I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis."
29
"It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight."
29
"I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war."
28
"War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering."
28
"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war."
27
"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated."
27
"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
25
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."
25
"In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds."
24
"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
24
"The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war."
24
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
23
"I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral."
23
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
23
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
22
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
22
"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
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