- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
- Feudal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020