Quotes with anti-war

Quotes 441 till 460 of 675.

  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Camille Paglia The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Graham The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • A. J. Muste The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bee Wilson The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alexander Pope The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Douclas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douclas MacArthur
    American general (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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