Going To War Quotes - Page 3

• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cute, Marriage, Funny Love

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• If we want an all-volunteer force, the bottom line is that we're going to have to take care of these people who were willing to do what the bulk of people weren't willing to do. Going to war is dangerous - you can get killed doing it. And the question is, Are the American people willing to recognize the sacrifices of these young people?

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  War, Sacrifice, People

  "Are Military Pensions Too 'Generous'?". www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Sir Oswald Mosley thought his job is not just keep Britain from going to war with his beloved Germany, he saw it as his job to organize a complementary fascist movement inside the U.K. So, he formed this organization as the British Union of Fascists in `32. In 1936, they changed their name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists

  Rachel Maddow

  Jobs, War, Names

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• They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

  Muhammad Ali

  War, Fighting, Differences

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. December 30, 2015.

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• For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that the security of the nation is the first duty of any government but at the same time for me going to war would always be the last resort. I would exhaust all other opportunities first.

  Andrea Leadsom

  War, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, War, Leader

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels control. This reminds me - what Kerry said - about the big lie that Collin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the WMD in Iraq before going to war. He said "this is our evidence."

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Lying, Wmd

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

  Robert Fisk

  War, World, Problem

  Source: progressive.org

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• Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

  M.I.A.

  Art, War, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but the stamina required and what it takes to tell a story that is this big in scope, you need a general that will bring out the best in you.

  Walton Goggins

  Hate, War, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

  Samantha Power

  War, Trying, Jokes

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• One of the real costs of the war is that our security is actually less than it otherwise would have been - ironic, since enhancing security was one of the reasons for going to war. Our armed forces have been depleted - we have been wearing out equipment and using up munitions faster than we have been replacing them; the armed forces face difficult problems in recruitment -by any objective measures,including those used by the armed forces, quality has deteriorated significantly.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Real, War, Ironic

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

  Colin Powell

  War, Responsibility, Government

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

  Quinn Norton

  Falling In Love, War, World

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• Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Strong, War, Germany

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• A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  War, Eye, Hands

  "Hall of Fame UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian dies aged 84", www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2015.

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• It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.

  Maurice Cowling

  War, Army, Government

  "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 144), 1990.

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• If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, War

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• If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Negative

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• Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

  Anita Roddick

  War, Army, Oil

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• For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.

  Wangari Maathai

  War, People, Ego

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Tired

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

  Kathryn Budig

  War, Yoga, Long

  "Kathryn Budig on Self-Discovery". Yoga Journal Interview, www.yogajournal.com. September 8, 2014.

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