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Image of Coco Chanel
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: War
Image of George H. W. Bush
Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.
- George H. W. Bush
Collection: War
Image of Woody Allen
In the event of war, I'm a hostage.
- Woody Allen
Collection: War
Image of George W. Bush
Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein.... don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.
- George W. Bush
Collection: War
Image of Virgil
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.
- Virgil
Collection: War
Image of George W. Bush
An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.
- George W. Bush
Collection: War
Image of Paul Virilio
While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to what extent an immense territory, a whole continent, had effectively been reorganized into one city, and just like the cities of old. From that moment on, I became more interested in urban matters, in logistics, in the organisation of transport, in maintenance and supplies.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
Image of Paul Virilio
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
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Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: War
Image of Janet Morris
Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.
- Janet Morris
Collection: War
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War's balance will prevail.
- Janet Morris
Collection: War
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
- Janet Morris
Collection: War
Image of Edmund Burke
War never leaves where it found a nation.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: War
Image of Edmund Burke
War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Louisa May Alcott
I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
- Louisa May Alcott
Collection: War
Image of Vannevar Bush
On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
- Vannevar Bush
Collection: War
Image of Narendra Modi
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.
- Narendra Modi
Collection: War
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: War
Image of Dan Brown
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
- Dan Brown
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
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The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Cho
I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.
- Margaret Cho
Collection: War
Image of Hillary Clinton
I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: War
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Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.
- Warsan Shire
Collection: War
Image of Meg Cabot
My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.
- Meg Cabot
Collection: War
Image of Van Jones
Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
- Van Jones
Collection: War
Image of Noam Chomsky
The public is easily amenable to lies: the more lies there are, the greater the support for war. For instance, when the public was told that Saddam Hussein would attack the U.S., this increased support for the war.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: War
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In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: War
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: War
Image of Pearl S. Buck
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.
- Pearl S. Buck
Collection: War
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: War
Image of John le Carre
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
- John le Carre
Collection: War
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There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
- John le Carre
Collection: War
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The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.
- John le Carre
Collection: War
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For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.
- John le Carre
Collection: War
Image of Noam Chomsky
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: War
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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: War
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: War