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Quotes About War

My Story of the War
~ Donald L. Miller
As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
~ Doris Lessing
My father was in the First World War.
~ Doris Lessing
psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of antisexual morality, he believed, people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong. They would be unlikely to march to war against their wishes, or to operate death camps. Perhaps if we were raised without shame and guilt about our desires, we might be freer people in more ways than simply the sexual.
~ Dossie Easton
In his lectures to young communists in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of antisexual morality, he believed, people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong. They would be unlikely to march to war against their wishes or to operate death camps.
~ Dossie Easton
With soldiers coming home, trained to shoot guns, there was a marked increase in hunting and fishing. Many veterans wanted to take a well-earned month or two for recreation. In 1945, eight million hunting licenses were issued, an increase of one million licenses since the start of the war.
~ Douglas Brinkley
short book in 2020, written by a man named Gordon Chang, entitled The Great U.S.—China Tech War. This
~ Douglas E. Richards
A war for technology supremacy.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence. The ASI's war with the Androms helped bring this into proper focus. Winning
~ Douglas E. Richards
Knight sighed loudly. "I know most people believe everything the government does, especially within Black Ops, is all about war mongering, for military uses only. But this isn't true. Yes, the military gets first dibs and can elect to keep findings secret for a time, but many of the greatest tech advances in history came about as military projects that were initially covert. Secret
~ Douglas E. Richards
Because of a steel shortage brought about by war preparations
~ Douglas E. Richards
I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein
~ Douglas E. Richards
don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein
~ Douglas E. Richards
Spilling blood to protect the homeland was one thing. But spilling blood, only to then vacate hard-won gains on a whim and leave a vacuum that ended up making the problem far worse, was another.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." —J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb upon seeing the first test detonation
~ Douglas E. Richards
Neville Chamberlain, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in a letter.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
~ Douglas Jerrold
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
~ Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
~ Douglas MacArthur