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“That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.”

“It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.”

People Knows War Sides Yoga Opposites Karma Civil War Battlefields Karma Yoga Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.”

“You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.”

War Seems Women Pointless

Author:Joy Browne

“Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.”

War Light Walks Son Future Mark Army East Beast March Premonition

Author:Randy Travis

“What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.”

“War is delightful for those who don't know it”

Knows War Military Delightful

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Speed is the essence of war.”

War Essence Speed Mma

Author:Conor McGregor

“Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.”

War Use Purpose Humanity Fighting Car Army Stronger Intelligent Owners Mma Engines Fewer Units Tanks Garage True Purpose

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.”

World Ideas War Wanted Artist Certain Father Army Paint Photographer Oil Painter No Idea War Of The Worlds Sunday World War Ii World War I

Author:David Salle

“Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.”

World Ideas War Behinds Warrior No Idea Brutality Great Warrior

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.”

Ifs Feels Should War Film

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.”

“If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.”

Ifs World Needs War Country Running Political Sides Results Economy Cold Britain Bombs Pounds Cold War Nato Stock Exchange

Author:David Hare

“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.”

Men Firsts Has Beens War Young Careers Needed My Family Exciting Curiosity Curious Journalist Young Man Affected Glamorous

Author:Sebastian Junger

“I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.”

“When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.”

People Has Beens War Real Happens Sound Black White Color Real Life Combat Black And White Vivid Sensory Overload

Author:David Ayer

“There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.”

War Film Critics Squares Film Critics

Author:John Waters

“Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.”

Looks War Stars Missing Movement Couple Scene Conservative Bars Conventions

Author:Steve Schmidt

“Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.”

War Type Cold Opposites Universal Ideology Appeals Cold War Putin Mystic Arches Motherland

Author:George Packer

“Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.”

Knows War Mother Next Failing Generations Rocks Motherhood Gods Will Kingdoms Satan Empires Righteous Next Generation Kingdom Of God Cradle Loving Mother

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”

Humans War Light Action Spirit Hate Hours Dark Secret Events Concerned Silent Wander Dawn Midnight Human Spirit Love And Hate Flowering Chronicles War Love

Book:Picnic at Hanging Rock

Source: Picnic at Hanging Rock

“Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!”

Feels Years May War Ends Self Christian Spirit Fighting Courses Grows Christ Sin Walks Grace Praying Weight Mark Presses Lays Witness Endeavor Warfare Assurance Brethren

Author:J. C. Ryle

“My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy of the human race.”

People World Humans War Ends States Able Memories United Race Enemy United States Messages Intense Human Race Disgrace

Book:A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.”

World War Quality Following War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Longevity Quality Of Life Bacteria Antibiotics

Author:Bonnie Bassler

“It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.”

Heart Book War Problem Disease Resources Cancer Heart Disease Pestilence Infectious Diseases

Author:William H. Stewart

“The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.”

People War Evil Term Challenges Deals Numbers Huge Killing Tyranny Oppression Our Time Contradiction Internals Unjust Just War Huge Numbers

Book:Terrorism and War

Source: Terrorism and War

“When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.”

People War Force Nations Social Loses Violence Perspective Gun Conscience Hatred Reactions Obsessed Bitterness Insensitive

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.”

People Two War Real Hands Political Groups Economic Sake Significance Opposing Robbers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.”

May Mean Doe Art War Use Enemy Weapons Army Method Train Criminals Warfare Art Of War Unwise

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!”

People War Enemy Rich Mercy Socialism Bourgeois Rogues Idlers Hangers Rowdy

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.”

Kind Long War Whole Weak Majority Series Division Great Power Booty Weak People

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.”

War Class

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.”

Long War Certain Causes Born Produce Battle Unique Hatred Ultimate Forgotten Ancient Conviction Legacy Long Ago Frontiers Fanaticism Ultimate Truth

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.”

May Long War Earth Remember Desire Nations Danger

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.”

Humans Mean War Bigs Today Peace Process Race Technology Fit Structure Human Race Careless Poisoning Deterioration Lunacy

Author:Max Born

“So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.”

Should Firsts Important War Fighting Lessons Vietnam Troops Unjust Honored Casualties Unwise Important Lessons American Troops Unjust War

Author:Paul Begala

“It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.”

War Too Much Terrible Good Things

Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel

Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel

“Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.”

Ifs Knows Men War Wanted Energy Hell Source Months Six Baseball Gender Feathers Six Months Peacock Animalistic

Author:Bradley Cooper

“Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.”

May War Matter Winning Harder Complexes Burden Diplomacy Momentary Sustaining Follow Through Short Sighted Machismo

Author:Dick Gephardt

“We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.”

Long War

Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!”

Way Mean War Government Lasts Individual Lost Rights One Thing Europe Russia Enterprise Nazi Individual Rights Private Enterprise

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.”

Ifs War Bigs Crime Ought Taxes Sickness Shout Out

Author:John R. Rice

“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.”

War Sports Lines Greatness Murder International Breathing Shooting Thinker Minus

Book:Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents

Source: Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents

“But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.”

Believe War Dies Evil Causes Sin Shots Good Causes Snipers

Author:Chris Kyle

“The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.”

War Opportunity Language Black Race Progress Drug Unique Racism Reform Exposed Hostility War On Drugs Unique Opportunities

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.”

War Prison Decades African American Civil War Jail Jim Crow Parole Mass Incarceration Felons Probation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“War can't give life, it can only take it away.”

Giving War

Author:Edwin Starr

“The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?”

World Doe War Past Culture Lessons Draws Concern Backgrounds War Of The Worlds Genocide Holocaust Continents Second World War

Author:Irina Bokova

“I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.”

Thinking Knows Persons War Lasts Night Alive Bed Lays Staring Survived Ceilings Immediate Family

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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