“He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.”
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“All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.”
“I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.”
“It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.”
“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”
“I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.”
“The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.”
“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”
“When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.”
“There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.”
“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.”
“I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.”
“What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.”
“One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.”
“If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.”
“I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.”
“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
“I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.”
“War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.”
“I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.”
“I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.”
“This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.”
“You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.”
“I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.”