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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arabs don't have to be the victims of the Jewish war between Lieberman and Netanyahu.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga underground organisations did not fire on the Indian Army? They showed restraint.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Pakistan had not accepted the demand to stop cross-border infiltration and the United States had not conveyed to us Pakistan's guarantee to do so, then nothing could have stopped a war.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020