Wartime Quotes - Page 2

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  Edmund H. North

  Emotional, Luxury, Painful

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• I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding policies that have been accepted for literally generations. He thinks to concentrate unaccountable power in the Executive. He thinks you alter the laws so that, as Commander in Chief, he can determine, under what he says are wartime conditions, what the laws are, which laws should be enforced, and declare by fiat what our policy should be, even abrogating longstanding international treaties.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Military, Eye

  Fuente: www.golfdigest.com

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• Cuando los cristianos nos comportamos mal, o no nos comportamos bien, estamos haciendo que el cristianismo resulte increíble para el mundo exterior. Los carteles de la guerra nos decían que hablar sin cuidado cuesta vidas. También es cierto que las vidas descuidadas cuestan vidas. Nuestras vidas descuidadas dan que hablar al mundo exterior; y les damos motivos para hablar de una manera que pone en duda la verdad del cristianismo mismo.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cristiano, Hablar, Dar

  C.S. Lewis (1960). "Mero Cristianismo"

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• [The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Government, Rooms

  "Supreme Court Justice Bans Media From Free Speech Event". www.govtech.com. March 19, 2003.

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• The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.

  Richard A. Falk

  Class, Rights, Quality

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.

  David Irving

  Thinking, Holocaust, Quality

  Fuente: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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• Cada vez está más claro que las autoridades húngaras están fomentando el encubrimiento de episodios trágicos y criminales del pasado de Hungría, concretamente la implicación de los gobiernos húngaros en tiempos de guerra en la deportación y asesinato de cientos de miles de sus ciudadanos judíos. Me parece indignante que el Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional húngara pueda participar en una ceremonia de homenaje a un ideólogo fascista húngaro

  Elie Wiesel

  Pasado, Gobierno, Criminales

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• There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end.There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.

  Megan Chance

  Children, War, Book

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Si mi campaña no está en el debate, no tendremos una verdadera discusión sobre la emergencia del cambio climático y por qué, de hecho, necesitamos una movilización nacional del tipo Green New Deal a la escala de una movilización en tiempos de guerra para hacer frente a esta emergencia.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Order, Addresses

  Fuente: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

  Betty Comden

  Canción, sentimientos, emoción

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• To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Mother, Son, Parent

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• Para disponer de suficientes materias primas... de las que careceremos en tiempos de guerra, debemos planificar la adquisición y utilización de los recursos extranjeros existentes en nuestra esfera de influencia prevista, como Sajalim, China y el Pacífico Sur.

  Sadao Araki

  Order, Southern, Sphere Of Influence

  "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.

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• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  Ian Hislop

  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). "Conversaciones con Christopher Isherwood", p. 91, Univ. Press of Mississippi.

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• In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Distance

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• A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

  Janice Y. K. Lee

  Book, Chinese, Stories

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• It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

  Shelby Steele

  Fighting, Opportunity, Identity

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• As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Opportunity, Greatness

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.131, PublicAffairs

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• That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

  Nick Flynn

  Soldier, Surprise, Should

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• Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Waiting, Invention

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• Keynes fue asesor económico jefe del gobierno británico y responsable en gran medida de mantener a flote la economía británica en un momento en que más de la mitad de nuestro producto nacional bruto, y todas nuestras divisas, se gastaban en la guerra. Tuve la suerte de asistir a una de sus escasas apariciones en Cambridge, cuando dio una conferencia con el título "Newton, el hombre". Cuatro años más tarde murió de insuficiencia cardiaca, precipitada por el exceso de trabajo y las penalidades de cruzar el Atlántico repetidamente en lentos aviones de hélice en condiciones de guerra.

  Freeman Dyson

  Guerra, Corazón, Avión

  "El científico como rebelde". Libro de Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

  William Powell

  Government, House, Wish

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93, 1971.

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• The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

  Ben Macintyre

  Book, Men, Games

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• Lo último que quería era ser Presidente en tiempos de guerra.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  President, Lasts, Wanted

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