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I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.
I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.
It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever
All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.
There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.