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War

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. – Karl Von Clausewitz

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. – Iain Duncan Smith

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. – Rand Paul

In war, there are no winners. – Ramman Kenoun

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. – P. D. James

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. – John Foster Dulles

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court. – Gary Bauer

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. – Maya Lin

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. – Maya Lin

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. – Dan Rather

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. – Bob Schieffer

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. – Cyril Connolly

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. – Daisaku Ikeda

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty. – Andrew Cuomo

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. – Saul Bellow

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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. – Louis Farrakhan

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. – Terry Eagleton

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now. – Cindy Sheehan

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. – Harold Pinter