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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.
President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.
Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!