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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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- Necessity
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
- Established
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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
- Men
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
- Mind
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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
- Discard
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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
- Flower
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I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him.
- Peace
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My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.
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My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
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