- People
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
- Ugly
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama is asking critics of the Iran nuclear deal what the alternative is other than war as if it's rhetorical question, but there is an answer: a better deal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
- Admiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020