- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
- Go
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We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
- People
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Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
- Momentum
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But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.
- Cold War
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Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
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So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
- Cold War
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The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
- Crisis
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The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
- Nuclear Weapons
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020