Wartime Quotes
66 quotes by 61 authors
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
— A. S. Byatt
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill
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My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers,…
— Antony Hewish
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The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival…
— Jim Wright
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One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
— Randolph Bourne
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There is no working middle course in wartime.
— Winston Churchill
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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown…
— Gloria Steinem
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
— Peter Singer
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Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain…
— Noam Chomsky
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Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
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Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature.…
— Winston Churchill
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I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal,…
— Chris Hedges
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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
— George H. Mead
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No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
— Guy Sajer
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
— Ben Horowitz
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I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being,…
— Shinzo Abe
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My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is…
— Chester Nez
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
— Alphonse Allais
Who Wrote These Wartime Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 66 Wartime Quotes, led by these top contributors: