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War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.
Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
If you give me the chance and give me your vote I will protect America from the wars that are being brought to our door step.
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.
I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.
If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.
Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.
I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?