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For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.Collection: War
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpsesCollection: War
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.Collection: War
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!Collection: War
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.Collection: War
Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict.Collection: War
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.Collection: War
Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.Collection: War
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.Collection: War
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?Collection: War
Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism.Collection: War
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.Collection: War
In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.Collection: War
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.Collection: War
War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.Collection: War
There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.Collection: War
I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.Collection: War
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.Collection: War
There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!Collection: War
To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.Collection: War
Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.Collection: War
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.Collection: War
The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazingCollection: War
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.Collection: War
There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.Collection: War
Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or withoutCollection: War
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.Collection: War
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.Collection: War
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.Collection: War
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.Collection: War
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.Collection: War
We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.Collection: War
In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.Collection: War
Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.Collection: War
Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!Collection: War
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.Collection: War
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.Collection: War
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.Collection: War
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.Collection: War
What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them at each other's throats so they don't have any money to do this. This is why we fought the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War.Collection: War
By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.Collection: War
When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly free. You realize: I'm here, I'm in it. Exaltation. Suddenly you're hit by another extraordinary feeling: my God, I can be killed. And: will I embarrass myself? It's like you're in a kaleidoscope and all of these extraordinary feelings are zipping by.Collection: War
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.Collection: War
There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.Collection: War
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.Collection: War
The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.Collection: War
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.Collection: War
Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.Collection: War
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.Collection: War