Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Winston Churchill Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Henry Miller Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • C. Wright Mills Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Burr Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Virgil Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... [Rule 2] is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
    Speech in House of Lords, 30 May 1962
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Carolyn Chute Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Carl Levin Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Orwell 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.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Capper Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bill Keller 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.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Olson 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
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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