Quotes 341 till 360 of 636.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
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Some have said that what is happening now is the beginning of World War III. Fundamentalists take over countries with population flows across borders. After some time riots occur, as we see now in France. There is talk about 30,000 recruited suicide bombers.
About immigration, Islam etc. After the 2005 civil unrest in France, interviewed -
Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
The Causes of World War Three (1960) -
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
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Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme. -
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
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Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
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That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
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