Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 861 till 869 of 869.

• Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• The more laws, the more offenders.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

  Alistair Cooke
  British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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• War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

  Anacharsis
  Scythian philosopher
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Subjects in these quotes:

• submissiveness
• conquistadors
• international
• americans
• geography
• interests

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