- 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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- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Nov 07, 2020
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
- Nov 07, 2020
War is a perversion of sex.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.
- Nov 07, 2020
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020