War Quotes - Page 35

• I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Vietnam, Veteran, Vietnam Veteran

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• At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, Stars, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

  Alasdair Gray

  Men, Pie, People

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• The war brought out all the art in me.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, Pippin

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Mad, Victory, Would Be

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

  Eugene Richards

  People, Stories, Littles

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• I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.

  Michael Deaver

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

  John Donne

  Life, Book, Men

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.574

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Crush, Stars

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

  John Fowles

  Life, Country, Laughter

  "The Magus".

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• I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, Scared, Remember

  "George H. W. Bush on Courage". The Academy of Achievement Intreview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Pestilence, Favour

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Strong, Discovery, Japan

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road."

  Price Pritchett

  Country, Jobs, Agreement

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• Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Running, Philosophy, Learning

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• Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Blessed, Healthy, Use

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• I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

  Ben Gibbard

  Love, Heart, Way

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• If your heart isn't yet illumined
  Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart,
  Be at war continually with your carnal soul.
  But if your heart is already awakened,
  Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Sleep

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• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

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• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

  Sophocles

  Love, Victim, Young

  "Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 507,

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• For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Fairs

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 2)

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• Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Courage, Truth

  The Idler no. 30 (11 Nov. 1758)

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• Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Enemy, Publish

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

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• Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

  Earl Hancock Ellis

  Marine, Men, Land

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• People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

  Lee Krasner

  Mean, Army, People

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