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" I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. "

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" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "

Henry Rollins

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War

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" When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. "

" Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. "

" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "

" As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. "

" Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

Suicide

Who

" A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. "

" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "

" 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. "

" It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers. "

" I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Cry

War

Tired

" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "

Steven Spielberg

People

Love

" 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war. "

" Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. "

" Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. "

" An army marches on its stomach. "

" Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain? "

" The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. "

" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "

" 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

Trying

Autumn

" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "

" In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. "

" Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. "

" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

" There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with. "

" In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. "

" The first casualty when war comes is truth. "

" Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. "

" Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. "

" This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. "