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I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.
With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.
Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.
I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory) Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron)
The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.
Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.
The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.
I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.
If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.