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The political struggle against marriage equality is warCollection: War
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.Collection: War
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.Collection: War
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.Collection: War
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!Collection: War
I never believed in the danger of a third world war.Collection: War
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.Collection: War
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.Collection: War
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write itCollection: War
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.Collection: War
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.Collection: War
During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.Collection: War
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.Collection: War
Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.Collection: War
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.Collection: War
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.Collection: War
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.Collection: War
I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then.Collection: War
At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.Collection: War
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.Collection: War
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.Collection: War
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.Collection: War
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.Collection: War
The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.Collection: War
Those who start wars, never fight them, And those who fight wars, they never like them...Collection: War
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.Collection: War
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.Collection: War
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.Collection: War
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.Collection: War
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.Collection: War
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?Collection: War
I don't know that a movie like Doctor Strange couldn't have been the second or third film we made. I don't think we're doing anything in that requires past viewing, as opposed to Civil War which we wouldn't have done as the first or second movie because so much of that film is based on the pre-existing relationships between the characters.Collection: War
To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.Collection: War
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.Collection: War
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.Collection: War
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.Collection: War
The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have asked about. I can say another thing, that this unity, that this people has managed not to fail, not to end with so many wars, things, things that are happening now.Collection: War
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.Collection: War
I don't think that the administration is being particularly honest with the American people about what this is going to cost in life and in dollars, what the dangers are, retaliatory strikes, once it happens. This is not a war that needs to happen immediately, if ever.Collection: War
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.Collection: War
I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.Collection: War
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.Collection: War
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.Collection: War
War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.Collection: War
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?Collection: War
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.Collection: War
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.Collection: War
As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.Collection: War