Waged Quotes
118 quotes by 106 authors
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
— E. O. Wilson
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
— Jim Harrison
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All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she…
— Khaled Hosseini
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...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we…
— Neal Shusterman
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Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.
— Neal Shusterman
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled…
— Khaled Hosseini
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting…
— Jack Vance
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There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great…
— Anne Frank
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I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or…
— Caroline Myss
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Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the…
— Nancy Holder
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also…
— Elie Wiesel
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Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must…
— Bernard Cornwell
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The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is…
— Stormie Omartian
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
— Roland Barthes
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don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and…
— Anne Frank
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Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race.…
— George Clooney
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
— Adolf Hitler
Who Wrote These Waged Quotes
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