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It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war. -- Simone de Beauvoir
We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country. -- Dick Morris
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. -- Steven Spielberg
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. -- Julian Assange
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. -- Aaron Huey
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. -- Abbie Hoffman
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died. -- Richard Flanagan
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. -- Walter Dean Myers
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war. -- Cynthia McKinney
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. -- Wendell Berry
In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world. -- Phil Klay
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war. -- Richard Louv
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. -- Christian Lous Lange
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. -- Karen DeCrow
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art. -- Richard Flanagan
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls. -- Steven Pinker
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. -- Phil Klay
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. -- Thomas A. Edison
When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation. -- Abigail Disney
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. -- Hanna Rosin
War is death's feast. -- George Herbert
Wage war on death. Live for love. -- Ted Dekker
Violence and war lead only to death... -- Pope Francis
Living in war is a co- existence with death. -- Zainab Salbi
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. -- Alain Badiou
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. -- Otto von Bismarck
How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war! -- Tibullus
Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there. -- Lemmy Kilmister
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. -- Marguerite Duras
Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. -- Natalya Vorobyova
War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love is like war, except without all the blood and death and stuff. -- Jarod Kintz
Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death. -- Simon Bolivar
War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death. -- Chris Hedges
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine. -- Banksy
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life. -- Joss Whedon
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. -- Al Capone
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. -- Edmund Spenser
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. -- Philip James Bailey
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death -- Robert Asprin
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. -- Jon Krakauer
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. -- Horace
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. -- Homer
War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. -- David Gemmell
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. -- Brigitte Bardot
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death. -- Heinrich Heine
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. -- Leonid Andreyev
He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend. -- Pittacus Lore
If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war. -- Phil Klay
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity. -- Albert Einstein
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories. -- Richard Finney
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. -- Lewis Mumford
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. -- Isabel Allende
I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed. -- Wilfred Owen
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? -- Joseph Addison
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. -- Elizabeth I
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad. -- Gary Paulsen
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. -- Cesare Beccaria
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over. -- Nevil Shute
I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. -- Kate Beckinsale
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. -- Dan Brown
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' -- John Fugelsang
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. -- Nigel Calder
[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. -- Janeane Garofalo
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death. -- Geraldine Brooks
The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell. -- Ann Coulter
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. -- Thomas Hobbes
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. -- Robert Fisk
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind. -- David R. Brower
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. -- Thomas Paine
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death. -- William Broyles, Jr.
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows. -- Charles Darwin
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything -- Frida Kahlo
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away. -- Henri Nouwen
Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. -- Lucy Ellmann
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). -- Dawn Powell
There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself. -- John F. Kerry
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death. -- Kenneth S. Deffeyes
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country. -- Gore Vidal
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. -- James Fenton

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