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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
– J. G. Ballard
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
– Bianca Jagger
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The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.
– Chris Christie
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The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
– Sloane Crosley
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
– Marjane Satrapi
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The real war will never get in the books.
– Walt Whitman
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
– Germaine Greer
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
– Ezra Pound
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
– George Orwell
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The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
– George C. Marshall
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
– Adrienne Rich
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.
– Clara Zetkin
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
– William Westmoreland
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
– Rand Paul
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
– Bob Schieffer
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
– John Podhoretz
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The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
– Jim Ramstad
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
– Hamid Karzai
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
– Rahm Emanuel
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The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
– Thomas Friedman
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
– Maya Lin
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
– Thomas Hobbes
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
– George Wald
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The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
– Richard M. Nixon
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
– John le Carre
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
– George Bernard Shaw
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The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
– Bianca Jagger
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The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
– R. Lee Ermey
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
– Dan Savage
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
– Fareed Zakaria
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The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
– Peggy Noonan
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
– John Foster Dulles
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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
– Michael Ondaatje
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That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
– Paul Wolfowitz
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
– Gertrude Stein
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Sweat saves blood.
– Erwin Rommel
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
– James Buchan
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
– Russell Baker
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
– Donald Trump
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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
– Colin Quinn
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So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
– Rick Warren
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
– James Buchan
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
– John Steinbeck
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Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
– Ron Fournier
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Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.
– Herman Cain
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
– Dan Savage
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
– Dennis Hastert
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President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
– Kevin Costner
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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
– John Bolton
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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
– John Bolton
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People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
– Anna Kendrick
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
– George McGovern
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
– Susan B. Anthony
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
– Barack Obama
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
– Plato
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
– Terry Eagleton
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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
– George H. W. Bush
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One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
– Lawrence Eagleburger
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Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
– Conan O'Brien
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
– George Orwell
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Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
– Andrew Jackson
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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
– Jane Seymour
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No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
– Judy Biggert
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New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
– Sarah Palin
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
– Lech Walesa
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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
– Thom Yorke
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My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
– Jane Seymour
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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
– Eric Liu
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My father was in the First World War.
– Doris Lessing
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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
– Haruki Murakami
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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
– Jason Mraz
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Morality is contraband in war.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
– Daniel Boone
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
– Harlan Coben
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
– Miguel de Cervantes
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Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
– Bianca Jagger
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Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
– William Alexander Henry
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
– Bernard Baruch
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Law is always better than war.
– Brian Eno
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Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
– Curtis LeMay
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Killing is the payoff of war.
– Morley Safer
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
– Dick Cheney
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It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
– Alan Dershowitz
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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
– George McGovern
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It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
– Tom Hiddleston
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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
– Chris Kyle
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It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
– Maya Lin
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
– Chief Joseph
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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
– Harry Browne
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
– Thomas Jefferson
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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
– George McGovern
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It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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