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Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. -- Michael Ignatieff
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable. -- Winston Churchill
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. -- Christopher Hitchens
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience. -- Abigail Disney
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. -- Robert Byrd
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. -- Harry S. Truman
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so. -- Kevin Powers
I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'. -- Richard Roeper
We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience. -- Steven Weber
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex. -- Phil Klay
No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing. -- Kelly Miller
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself. -- Tariq Ramadan
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it. -- Robert Dallek
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. -- W. Averell Harriman
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II. -- Eisaku Sato
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace. -- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. -- James Laughlin
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. -- Martin Ryle
That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism. -- Stephen Cambone
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war. -- Phil Klay
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. -- Kurt Vonnegut
War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience. -- Dan Snow
War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent. -- Suzy Kassem
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. -- Walter Savage Landor
We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive. -- Bobby Riggs
Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself. -- Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war. -- Toba Beta
At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war. -- Allen Dulles
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. -- Shelby Foote
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. -- Jennifer Gilmore
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. -- Harry S. Truman
The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences. -- Guido Westerwelle
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat. -- Ursula Parrott
Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war. -- Kirby Page
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. -- Art Buchwald
As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win. -- John McCain
The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war. -- Mairead Corrigan
Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical. -- James Norton
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. -- Richard Holbrooke
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. -- William Stafford
I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. -- Craig Venter
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character. -- William Westmoreland
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military. -- Helmut Schmidt
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. -- Otto Dix
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. -- Antonin Artaud
If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience. -- Phil Klay
Grave of the Fireflies" is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made. -- Roger Ebert
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