“During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.”
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“We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.”
“Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.”
“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”
“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”
“I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.”
“9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.”
“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”
“Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.”
“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”
“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.”
“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”
“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”
“That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.”
“Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.”
“The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.”
“My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.”
“My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.”
“World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.”
“In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.”
“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.”
“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.”
“The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.”