- I Think
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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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
- Alien
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.
- Compound
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- Nov 07, 2020
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, six weeks before the invasion.
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020