Quotes 321 till 340 of 634.
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
Source: Letter to Cromwell -
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
Source: The Power Elite (1956) -
Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
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Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... [Rule 2] is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
Source: Speech in House of Lords, 30 May 1962 -
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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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.
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Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
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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.
Source: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House -
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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