- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!
- Nov 07, 2020
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
War tore my family apart.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020