10,941 Quotes About War





  • Author Tim O'Brien
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    It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

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  • Author Walter Mosley
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    It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

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  • Author Gwen Chavarria
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    Satan tempted Jesus by offering Him all the kingdoms of the world if He would just fall down and worship him. Are the men in power who start wars with the plan of gaining someone else's kingdom actually falling down and worshiping Satan?

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  • Author Rachel Maddow
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    The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass.Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

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