Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Bertrand Russell War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Mitchell War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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  • André Malraux War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Mark Twain War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, paragraph 2
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Dryden War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Susan Sontag War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • John Galsworthy We are all familiar with the argument: `make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war'. And none of us believes it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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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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  • Bob Filner We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Virginia Woolf We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carly Fiorina We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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