Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence."
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Warfare
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Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"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."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare."
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"To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person."
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"A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless."
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"Life is a warfare against the malice of others."
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"For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death."
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"Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression."
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"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
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"She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care."
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"The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender."
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"Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]"
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"There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war."
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"One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated."
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"Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world."
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"Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion."
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"We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield."
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"Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle."
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"It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on."
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"It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare."
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"Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose."
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"History is the story of warfare between secret societies."
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"If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare."
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