Best modern & modern-warfare Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“'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.”

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Author:Kevin Garnett

“I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.”

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Author:Robertson Davies

“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.”

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Author:Iain Banks

“It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.”

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Author:Herbert Read

“I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.”

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Author:Craig Fairbrass

“Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.”

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Author:Frank Knox

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”

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Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.”

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Author:Gabriel Kolko

“We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.”

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Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

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

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Book:George Orwell's 1984

Source: George Orwell's 1984

“Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.”

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Book:Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace

Source: Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace

“Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare proves that they cannot win over representative governments in the long run, provided that people behind those governments have the heart to sustain initial punishment, and both the will and the resources to fight back.”

Source: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

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