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War Quotes by Emma Goldman
- The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful…
- The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments.…
- In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to…
- The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and…
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
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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
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- 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
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood