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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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In war, there are no winners.
– Ramman Kenoun
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
– Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
– Charles Lamb
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I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
– Avril Lavigne
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
– Stanislaw J. Lec
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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
– Jay Leno
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The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
– Jay Leno
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
– C. S. Lewis
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
– Abraham Lincoln
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
– Sophia Loren
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
– Martin Luther
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
– Alison Lurie
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
– James Madison
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
– James Madison
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
– Thomas Mann
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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
– Mao Tse-Tung
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
– Andre Maurois
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
– Marshall McLuhan
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.
– Golda Meir
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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
– Golda Meir
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
– H. L. Mencken
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
– H. L. Mencken
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
– H. L. Mencken
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
– H. L. Mencken
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
– Thomas Merton
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
– John Stuart Mill
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What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
– Dennis Miller
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
– John Milton
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We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
– Michael Moore
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
– Lewis Mumford
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
– Benito Mussolini
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
– Benito Mussolini
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Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
– Lord Moran
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As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
– Daniel Morgan
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
– Ted Nugent
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
– Ted Nugent
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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
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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.
– George Orwell
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
– George Orwell
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
– George Orwell
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
– George Orwell
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
– George Orwell
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
– George Orwell
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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
– George Orwell
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
– Wilfred Owen
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
– Thomas Paine
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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
– George S. Patton
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No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
– George S. Patton
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
– Pope John Paul II
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War is a defeat for humanity.
– Pope John Paul II
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No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
– Pope Paul VI
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
– Ron Paul
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
– Wendell Phillips
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable.
– Albert Pike
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
– Albert Pike
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
– Plato
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
– Plato
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
– Colin Powell
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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.
– Mario Puzo
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
– Nancy Pelosi
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
– Nancy Pelosi
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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
– George Porter
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
– Herbert V. Prochnow
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War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
– Ernie Pyle
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We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
– Muammar Qadhafi
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The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
– John Randolph
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
– Condoleezza Rice
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She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
– Joan Rivers
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
– Will Rogers
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
– Will Rogers
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
– Bertrand Russell
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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
– Murray Rothbard
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
– Cornelius Tacitus
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
– Lewis Thomas
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
– James Thomson
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