Quotes with war-war

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  • Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Dryden War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Susan Sontag War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • John Galsworthy We are all familiar with the argument: `make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war'. And none of us believes it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Anthony Eden We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Carlyle We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Virginia Woolf We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carly Fiorina We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • A. J. Muste We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Ashleigh Banfield We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Canadian-American journalist (1967 - )
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  • Aristotle We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Arthur Henderson We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Black Kettle We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Ben Carson We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Bill Condon We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Aristotle We make war that we may live in peace.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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