Warfare Quotes - Page 6

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Nuclear, Bombs, Done

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• Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

  Steven Pinker

  Toxins, Want, Behavior

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• It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

  Jane Goodall

  Behavior, Form, Chimpanzees

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

  Kevin Garnett

  Fighting, Games, Play

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• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Use, Today

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

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• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Jobs, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.331, Best Books on

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• You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Spiritual, Winning, Light

  "A Beacon in the Night". Interview with William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Iraq, Risk

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• Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

  Caleb Carr

  Kind, Terror, Civilians

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• I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  One Day, Call Of Duty, Modern

  "Meet the stars of Scorsese's new blockbuster". Interview With Craig McLean, www.independent.co.uk. November 27, 2011.

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• Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

  Dee Dee Myers

  Class, Priorities, Example

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

  Peggy Noonan

  War, Mind, Battle

  What I Saw at the Revolution ch. 14 (1990)

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• Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Book, Smell

  "Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, Class, People

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• If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Important, Looks

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love Is, Enemy, Trenches

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.231, Faber & Faber

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• Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Important, Forgotten, Plans

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster

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• I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

  Stefan Heym

  Military, War, Nuclear

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• I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

  Stefan Heym

  War, World, Psychological

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• President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Wall, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, United States, Poison

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• Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Kuwait, Iraq

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• The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Men, Cities

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• If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

  Ken Livingstone

  Trying, Noses, Daily Mail

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