Quotes with war-making

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1183.

  • Barry Commoner What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Sigmund Freud What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Castle What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Levin When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Arnault When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Ben Nelson When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • B. B. King When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ann Coulter When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bob Woodward When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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