951 private quotes tagged war

“John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov

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“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.” — Karl Kraus

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“There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.” — Larry Elder

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“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.” — George McGovern

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“War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Smedley Butler

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“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.” — Jefferson Davis

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“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.” — Adrienne Rich

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“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.” — Mao Zedong

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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.” — Albert Ellis

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“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.” — William Westmoreland

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“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.” — Gilbert Parker

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“The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.” — George W. Bush

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“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” — George C. Marshall

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“What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.” — Simone Weil

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“With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.” — George W. Bush

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“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.” — Simone Weil

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“I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.” — Chief Joseph

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“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.” — Rita Rudner

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“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.” — Dan Savage

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“I am against all war.” — Sophia Loren

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“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” — George Santayana

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