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  • We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

    War   Sight   Addresses  
    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

    War   Technology   Space  
  • Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

    Military   War   Borders  
    "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.
  • life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

    War   Self   Endless War  
  • It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

    War   Thinking   Self  
  • The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

    War   Enemy   Reason  
    "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.
  • There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"

    War   Talking   Our World  
  • The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

    War   America   Cost  
  • When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

    War   Looks   Ignored  
    Source: www.thenation.com
  • The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

    War   Believe   Heart  
    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin
  • Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

    Nature   War   Night  
    John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.159
  • The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

    Kings   War   Suffering  
    "Records of the Grand Historian". Book by Sima Qian, 94 BC.
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

    Military   War   College  
  • I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin
  • For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

    War   Endless   Stills  
    'On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester' (written 1648, published 1694)
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

    Clever   War   Teenager  
    William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.211, Delacorte Press
  • I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.

    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

    War   Writing   Fire  
    "Picking Through the Ruins: How Do We Stop The DRC’s War Against Women" by Lynn Nottage, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2009.
  • Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

    Happiness   Peace   War  
  • She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

    Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.210, Simon and Schuster
  • Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

    War   Home   Average  
  • Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about "endless war" or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.

    Brother   War   Writing  
    Source: progressive.org
  • An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

    War   Youth   Terrorism  
    Source: www.opendemocracy.net
  • [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  • People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.

    War   Iraq   Differences  
  • Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

    War   Commitment   Doors  
    "Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.
  • The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

    War   World   Legacy  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.447, A&C Black
  • The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

    Dream   War   Party  
    "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.
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