Quotes with war-oriented

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  • George Orwell Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Keller Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Olson Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
    The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Adam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Carl I. Hagen Some have said that what is happening now is the beginning of World War III. Fundamentalists take over countries with population flows across borders. After some time riots occur, as we see now in France. There is talk about 30,000 recruited suicide bombers.
    About immigration, Islam etc. After the 2005 civil unrest in France, interviewed
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
    The Causes of World War Three (1960)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Carl Sandburg Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benito Mussolini Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
    Talks with Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bob Ainsworth Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Still may syllabes jar with time,
    Still may reason war with rhyme,
    Resting never!
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Edwin C. Bliss Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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  • Bill Kristol Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Algernon Sydney That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Noel Coward That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Cordell Hull That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Castle That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • John Foster Dulles The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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