- Evil
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
- Mars
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- Nov 07, 2020
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
- Nov 07, 2020
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
- Sorrow
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- Nov 07, 2020