951 private quotes tagged war

“The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.” — John le Carre

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“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.” — will.i.am

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“You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.” — James Cagney

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“I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.” — Rand Paul

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“What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.” — Diane Kruger

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“I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.” — Kevin Costner

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“A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.” — Michael Moore

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“As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.” — Daniel Morgan

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“The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?” — Rahm Emanuel

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“The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.” — Diane Kruger

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“I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.” — Craig Ferguson

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“I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.” — Diane Kruger

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“I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.” — Claude Chabrol

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“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.” — John Foster Dulles

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“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.” — P. D. James

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“In war, there are no winners.” — Ramman Kenoun

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“With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.” — Jack Kemp

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“We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.” — Kevin Costner

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“War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.” — Marvin Gaye

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“I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.” — Maya Lin

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“My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.” — Haruki Murakami

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