- Political
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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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- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.
- Artillery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.
- Uncle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.
- Fellow Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020