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War Quotes
"I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century."
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"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
8
"When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly."
War,
8
"After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution."
8
"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it."
8
"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
8
"The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?"
8
"The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights."
8
"Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war."
8
"Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side."
War,
8
"It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war."
War,
8
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
8
"What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did."
8
"The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth."
8
"War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it."
War,
8
"The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment."
8
"The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts."
8
"Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune."
8
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
8
"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."
8
"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
War,
8
"I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier."
8
"I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war."
8
"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."
8
"Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression."
8
"As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate."
8
"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."
8
"I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not."
8
"We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course."
8
"There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed."
8
"On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction."
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