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Karen Russell Author
War

"Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.""

War Brother Dad
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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
War

"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."

War Peace Hope
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
War

"the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies."

War Lying Peace
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Hanoi Hannah Radio Broadcaster
War

"How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die."

War Confused Explanation
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Isabel Allende Novelist
War

"I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before."

War Fighting Hiroshima And Nagasaki
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Harper Lee Novelist
War

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."

War Father Dad
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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
War

"We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want."

War Rights Racism
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
War

"When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him."

Art War Dream
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
War

"The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive."

Men Art War
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
War

"That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it is well known that he is an excellent man and revered by his people, he can only be attacked with difficulty."

Men Art War
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
War

"It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline."

Art War Order
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
War

"And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony."

Art War Father
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
War

"Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation."

Art War Reality
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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
War

"George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again."

War Stars Unhappy
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Margaret Thatcher Politician
War

"Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'."

War Order Numbers
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