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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Allan Massie Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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  • Seneca Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • André Maurois Business is a combination of war and sport.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barack Obama But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Charles Lamb Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Eric Gill Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • John F. Kennedy Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Cass Sunstein Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
    On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • William Shakespeare Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Pat Barker Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Anacreon Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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  • Will Rogers Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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