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Letter "W" » wars
«I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.»
Author: Abbie Hoffman
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
Cannibalism,
War
| Keywords:
cannibalism, compulsory, eat, forced, killed, no more, wars
«I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.»
«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.»
«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| About:
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
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«It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.»
«It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
ahead of the game, chasing, frightened, illusions, In Love and War, peace-loving, plain, plain sailing, sailing, scurry, scurrying, sends, unknown, wars
«If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.»
Author: Robin Williams
| Keywords:
days, intense, Just War, negotiation, negotiations, ran, wars, World War I
«LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bee, bee sting, cleverness, diligent, flower, gather, gathering, gatherings, Gathering The, grief, honey, interlude, interval, moments, mosaic, nevertheless, picker, Pleasure and Pain, pricked, pricking, pricks, rose, sting, stinging, The Sting, thorn, wars
«In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
| Keywords:
occasion, practice of law, promise, put into practice, scout, scouting, Scouts, strife, take away, wars
«It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Age,
Generations
| Keywords:
acted, debts, generation, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, One half, principle, wars, World War I
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