Quotes 461 till 480 of 663.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
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The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
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The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 -
Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an Honest Hive.
T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23 -
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
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