- Children
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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
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
- Cordial
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- Nov 07, 2020