Adrienne Rich Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, War Quotes

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

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War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

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The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

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The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

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For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

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C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place.

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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

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When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

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Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

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The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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The next world war will be fought with stones.

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The secret of war lies in the communications.

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

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