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Quotes 601 till 620 of 636.

  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Castle What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Carl Levin When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • B. B. King When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ann Coulter When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Ben Shahn When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Thornton Wilder When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bruce Jackson Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Al Gore Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bob Graham Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Jeannette Rankin You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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  • Will Rogers You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Albert Einstein You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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