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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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- Nov 07, 2020
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
- Fuehrer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
- Binding
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
- Art Of War
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020