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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, England, Colorado

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

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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

  Program, Chemicals, Starvation

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

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• We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare

  Imran Khan

  Succeed, Masters, Taliban

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• What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Law, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Germs, Scales

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Responsibility, Support

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• The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

  George Orwell

  Machines, Use, Modern

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.60, Dramatic Publishing

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• Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  War, Opportunity, Office

  "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.

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• The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized.

  Theodore Beale

  Enemy, United States, May

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• 

  They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Class, America

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• ...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.

  Gene Roddenberry

  New York, Cities, Water

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• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Complaining, Arsonists

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• I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Killing, States

  "Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

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• We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.

  Ariel Sharon

  Military, Believe, Effort

  "Transcript: Ariel Sharon Interview", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2002.

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• Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Way, Doe

  Harlan Ellison (2016). “Slippage”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, World, Weapons

  Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, December 22, 1802.

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Fiction

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Air, Two, Soldier

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• So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Principles, Attacking

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• Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power

  F. William Engdahl

  Panic, Financial, Behinds

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• The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.

  Bob Dylan

  Atoms, Looks, Bombs

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• The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Fighting, Evil, Confusion

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Survivor, Modern

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• Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, War, Mean

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