Quotes with war-making

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  • George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
    Poor Richards Almanack
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Adolf Hitler Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Adolf Hitler Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Voltaire To hold a pen is to be at war.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Salman Rushdie After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Al Gore Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abdul Kalam Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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