Blockades Quotes

• First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Next, Firsts, Chess

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.

  Lester Roloff

  Christian, Jesus, Attitude

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• A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.

  Gideon Levy

  True Friend, Real, War

  "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.  It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total.  Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb. 

  Lauren Oliver

  Hatred, Towers, Turns

  "Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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• As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Thinking, Development

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

  Harry S. Truman

  Japan, Decision, Bombs

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.47, University of Missouri Press

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• This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hatred, Turns

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

  Nicholson Baker

  Warfare, Program, Chemicals

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

  Dorothy Allison

  Needs, Way, Revolutionary

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

  Gordon Brown

  Oil, Decision, Volatility

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• Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and retaliation towards every German, woman and child.

  Eugene M. Kulischer

  Children, Goal, Hatred

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• I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Character, Needs

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Running, Moving, Thinking

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• We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

  Alexander Eliot

  Home, Adventure, People

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• The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential of a nation that has lived under an iron handed blockade and permanent aggression including state sponsored terrorism and yet has survived. In the new circumstances we have the absolute conviction that we will move forward even more than we already have.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Iron, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Lying, Mean

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• As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

  Twyla Tharp

  Lying, Commitment, People

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• Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Cells, Vaccines

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't have here, especially when you leave the city areas it's a spartan life. But what is impressive about it is what is coming about. It's the future that all these socialists look forward to.

  Huey Newton

  Cities, Suffering, United States

  Source: www.afro.com

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• While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Loss, Fire

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Air, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Successful, Rocks, Economic Sanctions

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

  John Lewis

  Military, Europe, Organization

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