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War Quotes by Karl Marlantes
- When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
- War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
- This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the…
- When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down…
- For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife…
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- 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