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I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Whoever devotedly undertakes and performs this most holy journey... shall have the enjoyment of eternal reward from the repayer of all men.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.
All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.
I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.
War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.