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Letter "W" » War
«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 don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war»
«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:
ago, all over, built up, capitalists, cultivated, destroyed, disfigure, disfigured, exception, Great War, grown, guilty, Just War, keen, keenest, long ago, Long War, murder, over again, People of, Politicians, rage, rages, revolt, revolted, revolts, risen, the Big, The War, undergoes, urge, waged, wars, World War I
«I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
History,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
commander, commanders, distinguished, former, Great War, in history, in parallel, parallel, paralleled, recall, recently
«I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
endeavor, spare, statesmanship, victorious
«I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and York»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
at hand, bunker, Bunker Hill, civil war, Cowpens, declare, declared war, declare war, descendant, descendants, heroic, hill, Lexington, The Civil War, The Descendants
«I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.»
«I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
War
| Keywords:
cause, kill, prepared
«I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it»
«I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Painting,
Politics,
War,
Writing
| Keywords:
confine, confining, entirely, painting, Politicians
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