Carl Sagan Quotes, War Quotes

War is murder writ large.

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

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In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

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May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

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I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass comments that come from me [on Star Wars].

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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

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If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

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A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

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War is not women's history.

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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

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We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

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We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

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