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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.
Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!