Famous Quotes: War

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
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But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
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You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
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Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
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Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
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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.
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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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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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
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My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Politics is 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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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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