Quotes with tug-of-war

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  • Adam Schiff The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Wellesley The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Bob Dylan The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Basil O'Connor The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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  • Bertolt Brecht Their peace and their war
    Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Saul Bellow There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bernard Mandeville There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • André Malraux There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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  • John F. Kennedy There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William T. Sherman There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Machiavelli There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Theodore Harold White There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Amelia Earhart There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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