War Quotes - Page 39

• Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

  Winston Churchill

  Feelings, Atmosphere, Temperature

  Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

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• Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war and emphasize cunning strategy as a means to victory, Morihei understood that continued fighting-with others, with ourselves, and with the environment-will ruin the earth. “The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Book, Mean

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Sleep, People, Humanity

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• There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;
  else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

  Alice Cary

  Broken, Heaven, Noise

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.95

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• It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Boys, Jail, Mind

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• War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Enemy, Scales, Slaughter

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

  Julien Benda

  Powerful, Mind, States

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

  Julien Benda

  Love, Peace, Ifs

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

  Paul Vixie

  Cities, Lasts, Limits

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• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, Revenge, Government

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• If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Terrorism, Ifs

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• War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

  Eric Partridge

  Imagination, World, Next

  Ralph Hale Mottram, John Easton, Eric Partridge (1930). “Three Men's War: The Personal Records of Active Service”

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• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

  Rene Cassin

  Honor, Trying, Survivor

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• I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

  Wendy Doniger

  Believe, Pacifist, Good War

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• My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.

  David E. Hoffman

  Goal, Stories, Sides

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

  Ogden Nash

  Time, Differences, Wonder

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• The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

  Bao ?ai

  Lasts, Ends, Accord

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• War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

  Chris Kyle

  Hollywood, Looks, Hell

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

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• Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Children, Effort, Joy

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, Political, Growing

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• The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Civilization, Mindfulness, Barbarians

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Islands, Years, Eden

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• I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Christian, Unification Church, Enemy

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  Mean, Autumn, Thinking

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