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I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.
We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.
Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.
You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
I know stuff about 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Star Wars,' but 'Star Trek,' I don't know.
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.
Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.
I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.