Quotes 141 till 160 of 663.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Source: Letter to Abigail Adams, 19-05-1794 -
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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History is the propaganda of the victors.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 57 -
Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121 -
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
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I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
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I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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