- Cold War
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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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- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020