War
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Laws are silent in times of war.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
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