Michael Morpurgo | war
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.
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James A. Garfield | war
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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Abu Abbas | war
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
Michael Morpurgo | war
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the ‘pity of war’ as Wilfred Owen called it.
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George Porter | war
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
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B. H. Liddell Hart | war
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Edward Young | war
One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame.
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Shimon Peres | war
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
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Julie Bowen | war
It’s a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.