I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that World War II is at the base of this new policy. From the 1890s on, the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Wall Street is a huge issue. And it's controlling our lives today with this so-called election - we really have no choice.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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