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" What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. "
Wendell Phillips
Done
Mind
Press
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" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "
Charles Lindbergh
Looking
World
Looking Back
" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "
George Washington
War
Will
Accomplish
" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "
Vladimir Putin
War
Always
Cold
" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "
Steven Spielberg
Air Force
World
War
" It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword. "
Mohsin Hamid
Values
Support
Sword
" Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. "
Lewis Thomas
Information
War
Television
" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "
Leo Tolstoy
War
Responsibility
Man
" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "
H. G. Wells
Time
Will
Men
" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. "
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Curse
War
Time
" Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. "
Synyster Gates
Together
War
Rain
" In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. "
Douglas MacArthur
Win Or Lose
War
Win
" Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and a certain and considerable price to be paid if the status quo is allowed to stand. Examples include World War II and the Korean War. "
Richard N. Haass
War
World
Price
" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
America
Man
Problem
" Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
War
Cold
Present
" I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war. "
Richard Burton
Down
War
Up
" 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. "
Michelle Malkin
Religion
World
Evil
" Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. "
Barack Obama
" 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
People
War
Song
" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "
George Orwell
Good
Human
Human Being
" 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
" This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. "
William Tecumseh Sherman
Young
Feel
Fighting
" Power is every stealing from the many to the few. "
Wendell Phillips
Many
Every
Few
" I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. "
Bayard Rustin
Rise
Progress
I Am
" I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go. "
Keala Settle
Thought
Day
Bullying
" The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. "
Barack Obama
" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "
Winston Churchill
Never
Fight
Surrender
" The keener the want the lustier the growth. "
Wendell Phillips
Growth
Keener
Want
" Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Serious
War
Sometimes
" A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. "
George S. Patton
Saves
Sweat
Gallon
" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "
George McGovern
Good
Me
Say