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Image of Manfred Gerstenfeld
It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.
- Manfred Gerstenfeld
Collection: War
Image of Manfred Gerstenfeld
Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war...it is a large failure.
- Manfred Gerstenfeld
Collection: War
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Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.
- Manfred Gerstenfeld
Collection: War
Image of Manfred Gerstenfeld
Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.
- Manfred Gerstenfeld
Collection: War
Image of Graham T. Allison
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."
- Graham T. Allison
Collection: War
Image of Graham T. Allison
One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even a condition of mutual assured destruction. Secondly, one's got two economies that have become so deeply interlaced that a war between the U.S. and China would leave Wal-Marts empty and Chinese factories producing for nothing. Thirdly, climate - if between the two of us, we keep doing what we're doing, we can create a climate in which our grandchildren won't be able to live.
- Graham T. Allison
Collection: War
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When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?
- Graham T. Allison
Collection: War
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I think we should be organized in something called an Alliance Against Nuclear Terrorism. In the same way that NATO was the great alliance of the Cold War and served a great purpose then, we need now, in the war on terrorism, a new alliance, the mission of which would be to minimize the risk of nuclear terrorist attacks, and the members would agree to sign on to the gold standard.
- Graham T. Allison
Collection: War
Image of Graham T. Allison
If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the German general staff would have turned Hitler out. And one would not have had a cause for war, and you wouldn't have had World War II.
- Graham T. Allison
Collection: War
Image of Kang Chol-hwan
After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.
- Kang Chol-hwan
Collection: War
Image of Satish Kumar
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
- Satish Kumar
Collection: War
Image of Sasheer Zamata
A lot of the people that work at Disney World are older people, and a lot have also been through wars, so they just want to work where people are smiling all the time. That's what I've been told, anyway.
- Sasheer Zamata
Collection: War
Image of Myka 9
America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and territorialism. I don't know if it's a transcendental pre-colonial mentality but I don't see too many other races of people trippin' about who is coming in and coming out. I think it's primarily racism disguised as class wars.
- Myka 9
Collection: War
Image of David Letterman
The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
- David Letterman
Collection: War
Image of Maia Szalavitz
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive.
- Maia Szalavitz
Collection: War
Image of Maia Szalavitz
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.
- Maia Szalavitz
Collection: War
Image of Alice Schwarzer
I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.
- Alice Schwarzer
Collection: War
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But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.
- Alice Schwarzer
Collection: War
Image of Mark Durie
Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.
- Mark Durie
Collection: War
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There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.
- Mark Durie
Collection: War
Image of Ann Leckie
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.
- Ann Leckie
Collection: War
Image of Andy Kindler
They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for the people putting it on. They keep you out in the woods and won't let you come back until you're funny. Lenny Bruce came up with his Religions Inc. bit on a day hike.
- Andy Kindler
Collection: War
Image of Joseph Straus
No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
- Joseph Straus
Collection: War
Image of Charles R. Morris
The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.
- Charles R. Morris
Collection: War
Image of Charles R. Morris
The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.
- Charles R. Morris
Collection: War
Image of Felipe Esparza
The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.
- Felipe Esparza
Collection: War
Image of T. E. Lawrence
Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
- T. E. Lawrence
Collection: War
Image of T. E. Lawrence
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
- T. E. Lawrence
Collection: War
Image of T. E. Lawrence
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
- T. E. Lawrence
Collection: War
Image of Karl Kraus
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: War
Image of Karl Kraus
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: War
Image of C. Everett Koop
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
- C. Everett Koop
Collection: War
Image of Zoe Leonard
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.
- Zoe Leonard
Collection: War
Image of Ninon de L'Enclos
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
Collection: War
Image of John Knowles
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart
- John Knowles
Collection: War
Image of Robert O. Paxton
Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against Jews affected only foreign Jews, which was, of course, absolutely wrong. So he obviously wasn't too well-informed about what is going on in the Vichy government.
- Robert O. Paxton
Collection: War
Image of Robert O. Paxton
There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.
- Robert O. Paxton
Collection: War
Image of Robert O. Paxton
Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial records of the special courts set up by Vichy. And especially interesting are the trial records of the Purge Trials after the war.
- Robert O. Paxton
Collection: War
Image of Ernest Lawrence
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
- Ernest Lawrence
Collection: War
Image of Phil Elvrum
When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow.
- Phil Elvrum
Collection: War
Image of Tom Gjelten
One of Donald Trump's criticisms of President Barack Obama and of Hillary Clinton was that they seemed reluctant to use the words radical Islam. It was not just semantics. Trump said it's important to name the enemy idea and then attack it. Consider the Cold War. The U.S. and its allies waged a kind of propaganda war against the communist idea using radio broadcasts and other tools. Trump has said he'd do the same against Islamic extremism.
- Tom Gjelten
Collection: War
Image of Katherine Jackson
Don't go to war no more. Steady peace because peace is all we need.
- Katherine Jackson
Collection: War
Image of Douglas A. Blackmon
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.
- Douglas A. Blackmon
Collection: War
Image of Craig Kilborn
President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain?
- Craig Kilborn
Collection: War
Image of A. J. Liebling
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
- A. J. Liebling
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin E. Sasse
We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.
- Benjamin E. Sasse
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin E. Sasse
There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.
- Benjamin E. Sasse
Collection: War
Image of Florence King
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.
- Florence King
Collection: War