- Poverty
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- 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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- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
- Gas Chambers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
- Second
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
- Gas Chambers
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
- Public Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Joe passed away in the war, it seemed only natural that Jack and Bobby and then Teddy might pursue office as well. Public service was part of our DNA from our earliest years.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020