Quotes with war-propaganda

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  • Ann Druyan Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Wendell Phillips What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bernard Levin What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Ben Shahn When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Thornton Wilder When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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