Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 261 till 280 of 869.

  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Noam Chomsky If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Adnan Pachachi If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • John Bright If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • Alcee Hastings If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Boris Johnson If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Arlen Specter 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
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Virginia Woolf If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? Not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ruth Benedict If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Salvatore Satta If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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  • Stephen Hawking If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bao Dai If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Jules de Gaultier Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
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  • Tacitus In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Arthur Henderson In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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