Hjalmar Branting quote: "Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war."

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be wa...
SMEDLEY BUTLER

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men w...
J. ANTHONY LUKAS

If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded cou...
EDEN PHILLPOTTS

...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more st...
ROSA BROOKS

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.
HUTTON GIBSON

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about t...
GEORGE WALD

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS

The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE

The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into obl...
PENTTI LINKOLA

Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'...
JOSTEIN GAARDER

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

War crimes, you say?

No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are ...
THISURI WANNIARACHCHI

It is those few who gain by war who send the many to perish.
CAMILLO MAC BICA

Do you know why your husband is always scared of staying at home? There is a constant war going on r...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Perhaps it's time that the privileged and the wealthy be required by law to serve in the military, t...
CAMILLO MAC BICA

A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and again...
YOKO ONO

He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in...
GERTRUDE STEIN

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because ...
DREW GILPIN FAUST

That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o...
LES MELNYK

We failed. We were victims of the war, and afterward we were waiting for the international community...
BLERIM SHALA

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...
ISAAC ASIMOV

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men wh...
ELIHU ROOT

There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also h...
ELMER DAVIS

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
SAMANTHA SMITH

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, w...
ALICE THOMAS ELLIS

People will love the war at the beginning,but those people who loved the war won't be there to cry a...
THESULA GUYRUKA ILESINGHE

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that w...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by t...
DANA ROHRABACHER

For the first time our channel was covering a war for the people who were fighting it.
GIDEON YAGO

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of people...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement agains...
NOAM CHOMSKY

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bomb...
ISAAC ASIMOV

The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I s...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY

We are not going there to discuss a cease-fire. We are going there to discuss the end of the war -- ...
BIZIMA KARAHA

It is time for the international community to work for the creation of an independent Kurdistan as t...
WIDAD AKREYI

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w...
ANG LEE

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK

They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war, and they claimed after the war th...
HUTTON GIBSON

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II...
ISAAC ASIMOV

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the B...
SIMON BEAUFOY

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS

PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

There was no right or wrong during war. The setting sun made me realize that the ones who would live...
SHAYNE COLACO

They were called grunts, and many of them, however grudgingly, were proud of the name. They were the...
BERNARD EDELMAN

The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to b...
MARGARET ATWOOD

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless....
JOHN MCAFEE

My first sight of the fabled warrior was a surprise. He was not a mighty-thewed giant, like Ajax. Hi...
BEN BOVA

In a corporatocracy such as in which we live, there is no difference between the idle rich, those th...
CAMILLO MAC BICA

He was close enough so that I could see his face clearly, even with his helmet's cheek flaps tied ti...
BEN BOVA

He did not appear to be a very tall man; what I could see of legs seemed stumpy, though heavily musc...
BEN BOVA

Like it or not, the governments of this world need to be well-prepared at the time when the alien ra...
TOBA BETA

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still ...
SARA SHERIDAN

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars...
JURGEN HABERMAS

War and the threat of war stimulate speculation upon the conditions of peace.
KENNETH N. WALTZ

The Democrats of the Sixties were all about making love and not war while a war-loving Republican is...
MICHELE ZIPP

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our hist...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty tha...
MICHAEL SPECTER

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their suff...
ARTHUR HENDERSON

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and milita...
NEIL SHEEHAN

(He) was a Russian, born in Latvia, who was an actor, singer, gangster and ran a whole network of ag...
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the conti...
JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER

There are people who view themselves on the Right, who were enthusiastic supporters of the war, who ...
ANDREW BACEVICH

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace woul...
WINSTON CHURCHILL

It has often been said that Christian Poles did nothing to help Jews during the war. Don't believe i...
CHRISTA LAIRD

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
NADINE LABAKI

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, th...
NAOMI WOLF

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed ...
CRAIG VENTER

But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the femin...
JUSTIN SANE

For the servicemen there were lots of hugs and kisses. We were so happy that the war was over.
LLOYD BROWN

This is not a labor dispute. This is negotiations. Pemco has declared war on the workers.
BOB WOOD

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany ...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support ...
RENE CASSIN

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wante...
TIM O'BRIEN

The public has turned against this war. And when the public turns against the war, Congress reacts t...
JOHN MURTHA

Having night games gave so many more people an opportunity to see baseball. Once the war started, yo...
LARRY HARTZELL

There is a lot of work left to do; this war is far from over. Each day more and more people are spea...
LESLIE CAGAN

The 55 who are on the [U.S.] list of the most-wanted [Iraqis] would be tried before this court for w...
ENTIFADH QANBAR

Pirates who were hired by many countries, especially in times of war, were businessmen and capitalis...
FRANK LAMBERT

The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE

It actually turned out that many of those who were symptom-free for one year were also symptom-free ...
DR WENDY SLUTSKE

The more I read about this episode, the more I realized how important it was to our understanding of...
BRUCE LEVINE

despite the threat of imminent war.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in...
O ANNA NIEMUS

We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been kill...
JACK REED

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much mor...
MONICA CROWLEY

War is not about victory or defeat. It is about the total failure of human spirit. When you see the ...
ROBERT FISK

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary ...
MIKE QUIGLEY

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But t...
BILL AYERS

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World W...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

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Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

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