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Quotes 581 till 600 of 636.

  • Aristotle We make war that we may live in peace.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Graham We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Neville Chamberlain We regard the agreements signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
    Speech 30-09-1938
    Neville Chamberlain
    British politician and Prime Minister (1869 - 1940)
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  • Harry S. Truman We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ann Coulter We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bill Shuster We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ann Coulter We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Ann Druyan Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Wendell Phillips What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bernard Levin What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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