quotes about Invasion
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
-- Adam McKay -
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
-- Aldrich AmesSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
-- Anna Sui -
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There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.
-- Antonis Samaras -
I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
-- Ari FleischerSource : Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 10, 2003.
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.
-- Bertrand de JouvenelSource : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”
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I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
-- Branch Rickey -
Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.
-- Carl WoeseSource : "Carl Woese, Evolution's Golden Revolutionary". Interview with Suzan Mazur, www.scoop.co.nz. October 4, 2012.
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The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.
-- David Grinspoon -
I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
-- Frederick SoddySource : American Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, (p. 248), 1946.
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Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
-- Gabrielle Roth -
The invasions are totally unacceptable and should be stopped forthwith by whoever is doing it,
-- Gideon Gono -
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
-- Harold Pinter -
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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
-- Hervey Allen -
Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.
-- Ilana Mercer -
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
-- Jesse Jackson -
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!
-- Joel Salatin -
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The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
-- Justin Timberlake -
I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
-- Kenneth AdelmanSource : "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.
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The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.
-- Kofi Annan -
The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.
-- Lou DobbsSource : "Lou Dobbs Tonight", edition.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.
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And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
-- Melina Mercouri -
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.
-- Michael Hastings -
We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security
-- Nathanael Greene -
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.
-- Pauline Kael -
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How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
-- Robert CapaSource : Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.142, Pickle Partners Publishing
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Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.
-- Robert Kagan -
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Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.
-- Rod Liddle -
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
-- Sarah Zettel -
...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?
-- Shannon Hale -
It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.
-- Stephen Harper -
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
-- Terry Eagleton -
If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.
-- Tom Lehrer -
We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.
-- Tony Blair -
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
-- V. S. Naipaul -
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The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
-- Vasily Grossman -
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
-- Victor Hugo -
The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.
-- Walter Cronkite -
I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
-- William Hague -
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The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.
-- Jeff BarrySource : "Rock and Roll". "In The Groove", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.
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When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.
-- Trevor Noah -
If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
-- Mohammad Javad ZarifSource : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
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It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.
-- Frank Murphy -