Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 821 till 840 of 869.

  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bonnie Bassler When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
    A Theory of Roughness
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Caleb Cushing When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • B. B. King When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ann Coulter When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Ben Shahn When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Thornton Wilder When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • William Golding Which is better: to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
    Lord of the Flies
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Bruce Jackson Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Adolf Hitler Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Al Gore Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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