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“I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.”

“Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.”

War Lying Boys Greater Arms Wine Drunk Charm Bowls Renown

Book:The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon

Source: The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon

“A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

War Grows Doubt

Book:Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction

Source: Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction

“Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.”

World War States Feelings Voice United United States Support Civilization Lows Islamic Clash Gears Muslim World Top Gear Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Husain Haqqani

“Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap. I am sure that every student here present fully understands the importance of staying on the good side of the young "intellectuals" - I mean the windward side, of course.”

Ifs World May Mean War Young Courses Sides Forever Rights Students Judging Importance Appearance Staying Soap Campus

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.”

“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.”

Ifs Want Should Important War Lost Class Skills Inequality Subtlety Lost Ones

Author:Maurice Cowling

“From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.”

War Fighting Views Moral Conditions Resources Fortune Burden Point Of View Britain Good Fortune Indignation Fighting On Moral Indignation

Book:Mill and Liberalism

Source: Mill and Liberalism

“It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.”

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.”

Source: Linear Programming and Extensions

“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”

Years War Three Four Events Battle Thousand Pages Hundred Decided Instance Devoted Volume Routes Describing Participants Crusades

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.”

War Simple Students Taught Notion Myth Peaceful Savages Anthropologists

Author:Lloyd deMause

“Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.”

Knows Men Looks War Eye Pay Brave Shoulders Over You Shore Wages Brave Man

Author:Jackson C. Frank

“Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.”

War Mother Community Praying

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.”

Important War Nations Economic Evolution Relation Trade International International Relations Nexus

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.”

War Records Historical Transition Elsewhere

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.”

World War Given Wish Enemy Support Fronts Weakness Tools West Islam Western Jew Israel Defense Ideology Followers Supporter Attacking Strategic Ideological

Author:Caroline Glick

“You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.”

World Firsts War Mother Fighting Father Males Patterns Tendencies War Of The Worlds First World War Baldness

Author:Jeremy Hardy

“The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.”

Giving Children War Moments Parent Party Stage Picks Forgotten Your Children That Moment Realising Afghan

Author:Jeremy Hardy

“The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.”

War Used Chance Simple Cold Stronger Nuclear Bombs Cold War Emerging Proliferation Nuclear Bomb Nuclear Proliferation

Author:Johann Hari

“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”

People World Children War Today Dies Found Born Chance Poor Class Study Rich Moved Determine British War Of The Worlds Britain Second World War Chatter Poor Family Rich Family

Author:Johann Hari

“Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.”

May War Suffering Wit Paine Taks

Author:Robert Henryson

“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.”

“This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore?we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.”

Has Beens War Pain Nations Danger Serious Kings Holy Civil War Insult Supporter Royal Disgrace Crusades Charter Weakening Christendom Magna Carta Excommunication

Author:Pope Innocent III

“I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.”

Needs Trying War Seems America Remember Fighting Given Enemy Soldier Guts Permission

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.”

People World War Government Action Stars Blood Involved Murder Killing Jew Criminals Camps Palestinian Discourse Bully Civilised Ariel Wilder Sharon Mahler Mendelssohn

Author:Gerald Kaufman

“The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!”

Ifs Years Children Long Stills War Lasts Used Force Air Military Youth Baby Long Time Gun Warrior Uniforms Employed Total War Air Force Aircraft Artillery Hitler Youth Military Uniform

Author:Friedrich Kellner

“War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.”

Ifs War Would Be Together Form Numbers Enemy Cutting Fronts Get Together No War

Author:Albert Kesselring

“Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.”

War Months Mass Murder Spending Expensive Saturn Titans Good Science

Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan

“War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.”

People Stills War Certain Memories Flow Scales Manage Nasty Ambiguous Puddles

Author:Mark Kingwell

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”

Ideas War Failing Sarcasm Sarcastic Miscellaneous Handy Written Language Language Words

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.”

War Might Sea Middle Blind Rage Ice Finding Yourself Savages Battlefields Tempest Smack Volcanoes Rims

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.”

People War Force Successful Balance Bases Fundamentals Contradiction Construction Socialist Readiness Epoch

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.”

Ifs Men War Country Military Revolution Saved Genocide Betrayed Defence Tribalism Feudalism Military Man

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.”

Ifs War Policy Eclipse

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”

War Republican Fingers Conviction Damage Shakes Fists Only Time Delayed Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Ilana Mercer

“He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.”

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.”

“Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.”

Knows War Watches Tendencies Preparation Militarism

Author:William Mulock

“We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.”

Believe War Kids Winning Parent Drug Protect Average Reform War On Drugs

Author:Ethan Nadelmann

“The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.”

War Reason Prove Surprise Ships Planes Cream Pearls Navy Harbors Waterloo Pearl Harbor Attack Surprise Attacks

Author:Chuichi Nagumo

“Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.”

War Causes Ultimate Pressure Population

Book:Rite of passage

Source: Rite of passage

“The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.”

War Religious Democracy Terror Israel Palestinian Religious Wars

Author:Melanie Phillips

“The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.”

War Battle Trade Routes Trojans Trojan War

Author:B. W. Powe

“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”

War Night Middle Possibility Particular Cold Shots Army Hot Sentences Manage Landscape Midst Trapped Rice Subordinates Clauses Soaking Lavender Hot Days Cold Night Monsoons Recitation Paddy

Author:Francine Prose

“I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.”

Knows Important Ideas War Facts Fantasy Pure Jew Nonsense Riddle

Author:Joachim von Ribbentrop

“Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.”

Ifs World War Force Demand Including Pleasant Defeated Adopted Commanders Stance Repercussions Conceited Unleashed Aggressors Truce Azerbaijan

Author:Serzh Sargsyan