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I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.
It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.
Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.
When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.