Famous Quotes: War

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
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War is a profane thing.
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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.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
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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 labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
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I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.
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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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