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War Quotes by Jeannette Rankin
- As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
- I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
- The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
- It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were…
- War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
- You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war…
- There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- 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