951 private quotes tagged war

“What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?” — Benjamin Spock

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“We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.” — Black Kettle

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“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.” — Anatole Broyard

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“War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.” — John Randolph

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“People always make war when they say they love peace.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” — Elizabeth I

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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.” — William Westmoreland

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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” — Havelock Ellis

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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” — Barbara Tuchman

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“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” — Howard Thurman

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“Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.” — Alfred Adler

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“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” — Jeannette Rankin

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“Sweat saves blood.” — Erwin Rommel

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“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.” — Mick Jagger

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“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” — Abbie Hoffman

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“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.” — William Burroughs

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“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.” — Joe Baca

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“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.” — Umberto Eco

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“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.” — Ron Paul

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“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Pope Benedict XVI

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