Quotes with war-war

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  • Ban Ki-moon Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Allan Massie Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
    Allan Massie
     
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  • Ben Shapiro During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bob Graham During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • A.J. Cronin Even if my country remains in war with yours... remember... i am not your enemy.
    A.J. Cronin
    Scottish novelist and physician (1896 - 1981)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Events cast long shadows before.
    One such event would be a war.
    But how are shadows to be seen
    When total darkness fills the screen?
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Alphabet [Alfabet] from Five Childrens Songs (1934
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Carl Sagan Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
    Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 17 min 40 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Orwell Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Harry S. Truman Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Jackson For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • William James For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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