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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. -- Ronald Reagan
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that. -- Foxy Brown
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. -- George Takei
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. -- Phillip Noyce
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. -- George Takei
Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives. -- John F. Kennedy
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master. -- Czeslaw Milosz
True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire -- Dean Cavanagh
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles. -- Raymond Chandler
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. -- Sophia Loren
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field. -- Yehuda Amichai
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks. -- H. H. Asquith
When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems. -- Ron Paul
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. -- Sylvia Plath
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate. -- Rick Riordan
The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican. -- David Berlinski
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. -- D. H. Lawrence
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. -- John Prendergast
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath. -- Luther Burbank
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge. -- Rick Bass
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men. -- Billy Connolly
I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire. -- Jim Norton
This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. -- Pete Wentz
The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire. -- Preston William Slosson
I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence. -- Brendan
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire. -- Janice Mirikitani
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people." -- George Takei

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