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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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- Soldier
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they're talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the 'Times' in 1972, and I came with the mark of Cain on me because I was clearly against the war. But my editor, Abe Rosenthal, he hired me because he liked stories. He used to come to the Washington bureau and almost literally pat me on the head and say, 'How is my little Commie today? What do you have for me?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a healthy disrespect among veterans who served on the front lines for people who walk around telling war stories.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
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- Nov 07, 2020