Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Aldous Huxley War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Source: Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Alan Watts Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
    Woody Guthrie
     
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  • Bergen Evans Was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
    Source: Dictionary of Quotations
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Fred A. Allen Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Brad Wenstrup Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • Joan Didion Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
    Source: Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bette Davis Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
    Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Gilbert Adair We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • Bernard Ebbers We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Bill Maris We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Albert Camus We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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