Quotes with war-making

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  • W. E. B. Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • George Orwell The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alexander Pope The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Douclas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douclas MacArthur
    American general (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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