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Letter "W" » War
«A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.»
Author: Herbert Prochnow
| About:
War
| Keywords:
civilized, have the best, implemented, implementing, implements, implements of war, Mars, pick out, The Visitors, visitor
«A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Death,
Humanity,
War
| Keywords:
a million, deaths
«But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with? at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.»
«Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
astrology, astronomy, military, military science
«Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Death and dying,
Elderly,
Friends,
War
| Keywords:
battlefield, engaged, seventy
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
bloody, charge, commonly, large scale, objections, pacifist, pacifists, refutation, refutations, scale, urged, votes, world war, World War I
«A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves»
«As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain»
«A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
in the long run, Just War, long run, Long War, prosperous, The Long, The Long Run
«A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
asks, fails, kill, prisoner, prisoner of war, The Prisoner of, tries, war
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