951 private quotes tagged war

“If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.” — Dennis Prager

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“I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.” — Julia Child

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“I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.” — George McGovern

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“It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.” — George McGovern

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“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.” — George McGovern

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“The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.” — Gus Van Sant

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“Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.” — Anacreon

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“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.” — Howard Dean

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“The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.” — James Buchan

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“Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.” — William Alexander Henry

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“War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.” — Margaret Sanger

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“America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.” — Bill Shuster

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“I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.” — George H. W. Bush

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“If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.” — Arlen Specter

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“President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.” — Kevin Costner

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“War is the trade of Kings.” — John Dryden

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“We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.” — Abu Abbas

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“Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.” — James Buchan

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“I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.” — George Galloway

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“We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.” — Rand Paul

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“War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.” — Thomas Hobbes

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