Quotes 961 till 980 of 1183.
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Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
The Dying Animal (2001) -
Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
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