War Quotes - Page 34

• It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

  J. Maarten Troost

  College, Tea, Development

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• Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Sex, Justice, Shortage

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• Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Firsts, Truth Is, Casualties

  Jeff Greenfield (1996). “The People's Choice”, Plume Books

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• If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

  William Halsey

  Air, Sea, Land

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• After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

  John Boyd Orr

  Agriculture, World, Firsts

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• The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

  John Boyd Orr

  Civilization, Intermittent, Has Beens

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• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

  John Boyd Orr

  Thinking, Agreement, Bombs

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• My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

  A.M. Homes

  Jobs, Sex, Believe

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• I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

  Carter Burwell

  Stars, Opportunity, Musical

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• War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

  David Hackworth

  Reality, Horror, Shows

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• Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

  George Mikes

  Peace, Aggressive, Jokes

  George Mikes (1970). “Humour in memoriam”

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• Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

  Ernie Pyle

  Country, Ugly

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• Men fight wars. Women win them.

  Elizabeth I

  Fighting, Winning, Men

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• It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, Military, Destiny

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.128, Bottom of the Hill

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• We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Ignorance, Son

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

  Kim Il-sung

  Hate, People, Preparation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Differences, Israel

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• Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

  Peter Arnett

  Determination, Force, Planners

  "Transcript of Peter Arnett interview on Iraqi TV". www.cnn.com. March 30, 2003.

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• And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

  Ralph Bunche

  Race, Class, World

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• Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed.

  Mancur Olson

  Strong, Attitude, Fighting

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.

  Michael Franti

  Children, Wall, Believe

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• I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

  Rosanne Cash

  Believe, Violence, Murder

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• War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

  Rosanne Cash

  Planets, Idiocy

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• Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

  Randy Alcorn

  Long, Perfect, Suffering

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.78, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hero, Winning, Opportunity

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