Quotes with armed

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  • Bill Bryson Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
    The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Barry McCaffrey Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bob Schaffer The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • James Baldwin The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Henry Kissinger The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Carl Levin The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Frist The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Edna O'Brien The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
    Edna O'Brien
    Irish writer and poet (1930 - 2024)
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  • Ban Kimoon The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Akhenaton Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Ayn Rand Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anthony Eden We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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  • Plato We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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