- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.
- Angel
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
- Feudal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020