- Derail
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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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- Heated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
- Nature
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
- Football Match
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- Nov 07, 2020
I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020