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War Quotes
"War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war."
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"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."
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"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being."
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"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw."
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"These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges."
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"War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal."
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"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
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"As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing."
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"The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."
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"Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then."
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"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
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"These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable."
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"The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted."
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"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people."
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"It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq."
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"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
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"I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever."
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"So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about."
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"Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many."
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"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
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"Every sacrifice I make is for the good of my Clan - and for the other Clans around the lake. Even if that means sacrificing myself."
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"It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war."
War,
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"Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN."
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"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."Julia? Are you awake? There is truth, and there is untruth. To be in a minority of one doesn't make you mad."
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"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
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"Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style."
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"The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community."
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"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."
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"The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it."
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"The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces."
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
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"Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?"
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"The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences."
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