David Brooks Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

  David Brooks

  War, Numbers, Priorities

• Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is at war with Islam and maybe some of the other civilizations around the world. And I don't agree with that. But I do think there is such a thing as Western civilization. I think it starts with the Greeks and the Romans. Then it goes through the Enlightenment - or the Reformation, the Enlightenment. It goes through the scientific age. And it somewhat defines some of the cultures and mores of Europe and North America and some other countries.

  David Brooks

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

  David Brooks

  War, Achieve, Legitimacy

• Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

  David Brooks

  War, Issues, Generations

  "Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the polls". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 9, 2016.

• The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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