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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
There was nothing wrong - and everything right - with analyzing a law that establishes boundaries on interrogation in the war on terrorism.
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!
Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.
It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.
There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.