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Letter "W" » wars
«America is addicted to wars of distraction»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts, America, distraction, distractions, wars
«I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
died young, Die in, dreaming, ears, Fed, fed up, feed in, up to, wars
«Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?»
«All wars are planned by old men In council rooms apart.»
«For the great Gaels of Ireland / Are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry, / And all their songs are sad.»
«Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated / there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.»
«If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Action,
Mankind
| Keywords:
acted, All of Us, fate, human being, individually, in unison, My Way, personally, poverty, responsible, responsible for, unison, wars
«Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.»
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
«Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
abyss, annihilation, begot, chain, chain reaction, impasse, modern world, or else, plunged, plunges, plunging, producing, reaction, This Modern World, wars
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