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.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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!
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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.
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.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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