"You can no more win a war than…" — Jeannette Rankin
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
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20 Quotes by Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin has 20 quotes on this site.
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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
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As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
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Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
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Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
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The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed…
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
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I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
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It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end…
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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
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Killing more people won't help matters.
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More Earthquake Quotes
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one of 178 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though…
— Annie Besant
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their…
— Barbara Boxer
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in…
— William J. Clinton
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be…
— Isaac Asimov
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
— Frederick Douglass
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake,…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made…
— Charles Francis Richter
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It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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