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War Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little…
- No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
- Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You…
- In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
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- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
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- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood