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  • Noam Chomsky A siege is an act of war.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Wyndham Lewis A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Albert Pike A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Alexander Dubcek After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Brooks Atkinson After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bob Woodward After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Barney Ross After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Graham Greene Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir All oppression creates a state of war.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All progress means war with society.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Henry All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Eldridge Cleaver All the gods are dead except the god of war.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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