Quotes with non-military

Quotes 61 till 80 of 187.

  • Barbara Lee I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
    Renegade for Peace and Justice
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Vaclav Havel I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Andrew Jackson I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bruce Sterling If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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  • Bruce Sterling If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Benazir Bhutto In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Baba Kalyani In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Woodward In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
    Woodward and Bernstein. The Final Days, chapter 14 (1976)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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