Warfare Quotes - Page 3

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Nuclear, Bombs, Done

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• As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.

  Allen Boyd

  Jobs, Army, Air

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• Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love Is, Enemy, Trenches

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.231, Faber & Faber

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• Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

  Chuck Pfarrer

  Badass, Heart, Special

  Chuck Pfarrer (2003). “Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL”, p.392, Random House

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• In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.

  Graham Chapman

  Special, Lasts, Broke

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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• Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Pain, Heart

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• Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

  Steven Pinker

  Toxins, Want, Behavior

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Important, Looks

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• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, Class, People

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• It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

  Jane Goodall

  Behavior, Form, Chimpanzees

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

  Jim Dunnigan

  Military, War, Enormous Quantities

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• Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

  Dee Dee Myers

  Class, Priorities, Example

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Spiritual, Winning, Light

  "A Beacon in the Night". Interview with William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. December 19, 2008.

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• 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

  Kevin Garnett

  Fighting, Games, Play

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• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Use, Today

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

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• After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

  Frans de Waal

  War, Order, Two

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  Hippie, People, Ironic

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Special, Desire, World

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• Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

  Caleb Carr

  Kind, Terror, Civilians

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• I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  One Day, Call Of Duty, Modern

  "Meet the stars of Scorsese's new blockbuster". Interview With Craig McLean, www.independent.co.uk. November 27, 2011.

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• What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, War, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2123, Delphi Classics

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• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

  Walter Scott

  Memorial Day, Memorial, Soldier

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.140

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• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Jobs, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.331, Best Books on

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• Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Iraq, Risk

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