"In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother"
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"Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!"
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"The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives."
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"War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
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"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets."
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"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."
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"Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security."
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"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
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"War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice."
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"Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won."
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"Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm"
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"The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war."
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"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"
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"Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation."
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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"Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful."
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"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
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"Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?"
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"The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism."
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