Warfare Quotes - Page 10

• The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized.

  Theodore Beale

  Enemy, United States, May

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• In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  War, Opportunity, Office

  "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.

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• The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

  George Orwell

  Machines, Use, Modern

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.60, Dramatic Publishing

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• Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Germs, Scales

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Law, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare

  Imran Khan

  Succeed, Masters, Taliban

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• The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Long, Automation

  Source: ctheory.net

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• It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Technology, Years

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

  Nichiren

  Views, People, Stupidity

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• I think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.

  Jim Anderson

  Soccer, Spiritual, Daughter

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• History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

  Ishmael Reed

  Secret, Stories, Secret Society

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• One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we take the blows from the English and the Americans. [Germans in the bombed cities] are gradually beginning to lose their courage. Hell like that is hard to bear for any length of time, especially since the inhabitants along the Rhine and Ruhr see no prospect of improvement.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Blow, Cities, Air

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• A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Psychological, Psychological Warfare

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of the market, warfare state, debtfare, and sprawling tentacles of what is ominously called the Department of Homeland Security.

  Henry Giroux

  Space, People, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is specific about the current warfare and surveillance state and the neoliberal project and how different interests, modes of power, social relations, public pedagogies and economic configurations come together to shape its politics.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Surveillance State, Together

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those market-driven criminogenc regimes of power that now run the commanding institutions of society, with particular emphasis on how they have transformed the welfare state into a warfare state.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Memories, Intellectual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Space, Years

  Source: www.madre.org

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• By the way, this should be not only about protecting us going forward but this is a form of warfare for Vladimir Putin, who is a thug and a bully and has the friends around the globe that we don't want to be friends with.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thug, Bully, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wmd, Israel, Agreement

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Groups, Rebel, Chemicals

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, France And England, World

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

  Nicholson Baker

  Program, Chemicals, Starvation

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, England, Colorado

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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