Quotes 361 till 380 of 675.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
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Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House -
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
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Some have said that what is happening now is the beginning of World War III. Fundamentalists take over countries with population flows across borders. After some time riots occur, as we see now in France. There is talk about 30,000 recruited suicide bombers.
About immigration, Islam etc. After the 2005 civil unrest in France, interviewed -
Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
The Causes of World War Three (1960) -
Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
Talks with Mussolini -
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
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Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme. -
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
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Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
On War (1832) -
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
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