Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Alexis Carrel Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin Look at an infantryman's eyes, and you can tell how much war he has seen.
    Up Front cartoon caption
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • John Lennon Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • James Baldwin Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Lucky are soldiers who strive in a just war;
    for them it is an easy entry into heaven.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bob Gunton Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • A. Stevenson Making peace is harder than making war.
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  • Gerry Adams Making peace, I have found, is harder than making war.
    Gerry Adams
    Irish republican politician (1948 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Aristophanes Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • C. S. Lewis Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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