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“I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.”

I Can War Light Left Novel Honest

Author:Kevin Powers

“Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.”

People World Heart War Country Left Mark Determined Japan Bombing Renounce Atomic Bomb Indelible

Author:Eisaku Sato

“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.”

Long War Jobs America Left Term Taxes Office Percent Gains Rate Long Term Elders Capital Gains

Author:Andrew Tobias

“As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.”

May Has Beens War Today Left President Thanks Historian Now And Then Recalls Korean Surveys Terminology Truman Korean War

Author:Thomas Frank

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“War determines not who is right but who is left.”

War Left Determine

Author:Sidney Greenberg

“A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.”

Men War Character Science Left Nations He Man Depends Bounds

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”

Ifs Should War Asks Left Enemy Fronts Chiefs What If

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In war is it who's right, or who's left?”

Author:Kenneth Cole

“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].”

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Author:Golda Meir

“Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.”

Want War Earth Left Right Now Labor Slavery

Author:Roseanne Barr

“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”

Should Wells War Order Left Social Numbers Clear Middle Subjects Position Habit Convinced Reform Temperament Social Reform Pacifist Small Numbers Middle Of The Road Unequivocal

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.”

War Real Country Reason Left Poverty Tragedy Spread Aids Civil War Killers Civilians Hiv Slums Hiv Aids Mozambique Angola

Author:Miriam Makeba

“There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.”

“There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’”

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Author:Barney Frank

“Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.”

War Left Tomorrow Irishmen Left Handed

Author:Paul Ryan

“Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.”

“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.”

Firsts War Next Left Peace Break Tradition Conferences Good Sense

Author:William Glasser

“I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless.”

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Book:Song For Night

Source: Song For Night

“When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.”

People Years Stills War Ends Left Realizing Four France Meat Four Years Tickets Apprenticeship Plentiful

Author:Jacques Pepin

“One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.”

War Might Left Cold Convinced Conclusion Dictator Cold War Profitable Appeasement

Author:Mona Charen

“The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.”

War Left Peace Politician Complexes

Book:Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996

Source: Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996

“We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.”

Heart War Hate Left History Alive Hero Filled Faults Civil War Battlefields American Civil War Starks Stunned Remnants Brotherly

Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

“For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.”

War States Left Accepting Cold Wings Democratic Faults Reform Regimes Cold War Right Wing Left Wing Totalitarian State

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”

Ifs Knows Men War Today Turns Jesus Left Religious Leader Taught Holy Forgiving Village Cheeks Beaten Incarnation Slap Aggressors Religious Leaders Holy War Medina

Author:Eliza Griswold

“I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.”

Years War Whole Left Seven Seven Years Somalia Whole Year

Author:Barkhad Abdi

“War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man.”

Men War Might Faces Games Winning Left Interest Chance Issues Worst Findings Defeat Absurd Assumption Justified Admission All The Best Tacit

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”

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Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!”

Ifs Men Children Doe War Spirit Evil House Left Nations Pay Break Forever Trouble Prove Ethics Blow Driven Neighbor Furniture Heirs Captives Successors Bloodletting

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.”

“I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.”

Ideas War Shows Left Paint Folks Reform Ems Civilized Ancestor Savages Death Penalty War Paint

Author:Marietta Holley

“They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?”

Ifs War States Asks Left United United States Havens Election Scales Behave American Politics Nicaragua

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.”

People Should War Eye Left Peace Weeping

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.”

War Ends Left President Lays South Ruins Korea Hostility Korean Uneasy Predecessors South Korea Korean War Armistice Stalemate President Eisenhower

Author:Noah Feldman

“The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.”

Thinking Men Should War Law Young Reading Left Term Mankind Advantage Convinced Young Man Allies Travel And Tourism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.”

Knows Giving War Reason Helping Use Left Brain Havens Be Good Shut Up

Book:Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.”

World Littles War Left Land Arms Waste Garden Beloved Flames Our World Comrade

Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.”

Humans Kind War Seems Fall Left Nations Civilization Conscience Madness Anger Down And Angry Mad Population Falling Down Hysteria Forsake

Book:Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

“War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left”

War Left Determine

Author:Bertrand Russell

“There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.”

War States Law Individual Left Pay Struggle Hero Demand Taxes Silent Saint Refuse

Author:Benito Mussolini

“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”

“When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.”

War Country Facts Political Left Millions Struggle Written Ignorance Terrible Skins Ran Coward Countrymen Disloyalty

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.”

War Choices Left President Middle Century South 20th Century Korea Truman South Korea Great Presidents Stalemate

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.”

War Government Left Moral Crusades

Author:Richard Rorty

“And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.”

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Author:Dennis Miller

“My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his family, who had created a war against the Turks at the beginning of the last century to revive the Byzantine Empire. For three years, there was fighting, and all my father's friends died. So he hated the royal family.”

Years War Lasts Fighting Three Father Left Century Kings Died Hated Empires Three Years Royal Greece Revive Royal Family Byzantine Friend Died

Author:Costa-Gavras