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War Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
- I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
- It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
- War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total…
- There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives...
- Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.
More War Quotes
- 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