Quotes with war-lords

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  • William S. Burroughs This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bono This moment in time will be remembered for three things: the war against terror, sure; the Internet, probably; and how we let an entire continent, Africa, burst into flames and stood around with water in cans.
    Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Source: Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • William Hazlitt Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
    Robert Runcie
     
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  • Cat Stevens Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
    Source: Popolo dItalia (1 February 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism (1933) by John Strachey, p. 65
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Carroll Quigley Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • George Orwell To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Adler To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Myriam Miedzian To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Hannah Arendt To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
    Source: On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 3
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • George Steiner To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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