quotes about Warfare
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
-- Adam McKay -
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated...
-- Albert Einstein -
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.
-- Andre Beaufre -
I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
-- Bernie Sanders -
I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.
-- Bernie Sanders -
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The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.
-- Bob Dylan -
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare
-- Boris Yeltsin -
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
-- Brigham Young -
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
-- Caleb Carr -
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Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there.
-- CeCe Winans -
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
-- Charles Schumer -
[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz -
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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
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.
-- Craig FairbrassSource : "'Modern Warfare' Voice Actor Hints At Some New Work" by Matt Clark, www.mtv.com. May 02, 2011.
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For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.
-- Cyprian -
I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker -
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I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
-- Elizabeth WarrenSource : "Mass Moonbat Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody In This Country Who Got Rich On His Own - Nobody'...", www.weaselzippers.us. September 21, 2011.
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin (1987). “The New Science of Politics: An Introduction”, p.173, University of Chicago Press
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Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power
-- F. William Engdahl -
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
-- Frank Gifford -
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Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
-- Frank Knox -
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini -
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History has been the history of warfare.
-- Godfrey ReggioSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.
-- Graham Chapman -
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
-- Gregory Bateson -
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
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Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.
-- Harry Dexter White -
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
-- Heinz GuderianSource : "Sword Point". Book by Harold Coyle, p. 141, 1988.
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I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
-- Howard Zinn -
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
-- J. B. Priestley -
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We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
-- James CrumleySource : FaceBook post by James Crumley from Mar 18, 2016
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Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.
-- Jane PorterSource : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.159
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Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
-- Jared Diamond -
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
-- John Boyd Orr -
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
-- John Quincy Adams -
Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.
-- Jonathan Alter -
Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do
-- Joyce Meyer -
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The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.
-- Justin Sane -
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.
-- Kathy Acker -
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.
-- Laurence Sterne -
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
-- Lauryn HillSource : "MTV Unplugged 2.0". Live album by Lauryn Hill, 2002.
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
-- Leon UrisSource : "Quotes for the Air Force Logistician" by Air Force Logistics Management Agency, p. 115, 2001.
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Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.
-- Linda Colley -
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Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
-- Lou Brock -
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
-- Lucretius -
Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
-- Malcolm BradburySource : Malcolm Bradbury (1976). “The history man: a novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,
-- Mark KurlanskySource : Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.136, Penguin
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We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
-- Michael HerrSource : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage
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For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
-- Nelson A. MilesSource : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.341, U of Nebraska Press
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We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.
-- Norm Coleman -
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Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
-- Orson Scott Card -
You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
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Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]
-- Ovid -
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Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.
-- Pope Francis -
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.
-- Pope Pius XI -
Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.
-- Robert Southwell -
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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster
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Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.
-- Shirley HibberdSource : James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223
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Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
-- Sister Souljah -
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
-- Stephen GreenblattSource : Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company
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She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
-- Steve Martin -
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
-- Steven HatfillSource : "Text of Hatfill's Statement". www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
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For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
-- Sun Bin -
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-- Sun Tzu -
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So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.
-- Sun Tzu -
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
-- Susan Davis -
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
-- Wendell Berry -
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I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
-- Werner Herzog -
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
-- William C. Brown -
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist
-- Winona LaDukeSource : "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
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I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.
-- Bob Herbert -
If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.
-- Graciela ChichilniskySource : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
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The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized.
-- Theodore Beale