Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness."
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Invasion
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Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."
Gabrielle Roth
Dancer
"Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries."
Bill Johnson
Athlete
"God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures."
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"I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously..."
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"We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."
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"In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are bringing demands for a war crimes trial for the crime of aggression. However, though the invasion of Iraq was plainly an act of aggression, it doesn't break any records."
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"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."
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"The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter."
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"For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea."
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"The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows."
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"Iran is biggest strategic beneficiary of invasion of Iraq."
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"We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work."
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"We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us."
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"The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion."
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"The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings."
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"The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime."
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"What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression."
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"The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal."
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