Topic
War
Quotes
Humanity's Endless, Bloody Game.
War is a violent and sustained armed conflict between organized groups, typically nations or states, characterized by aggression, destruction, and the intent to impose one's will upon another. It is a profoundly meaningful, albeit tragically so, aspect of human life because it exposes the darkest aspects of our nature – our capacity for violence, tribalism, and ideological conflict – while simultaneously revealing our resilience, courage, and the enduring yearning for peace.
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# War & War-based electronic games
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Advance Wars" (Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, Characters, Brenner)
“...”
— Unknown
War-based electronic gamesU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Advance Wars" (Advance Wars: All games, Orange Star, Jake)
“Owned.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" (Quotes, Maj. Jack Grillo)
“Look out!”
— Unknown
2002 video games
Windows video games
Medal of Honor (video game series)U
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" (Quotes, Maj. Jack Grillo)
“Shoot them!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Advance Wars" (Advance Wars: All games, Blue Moon, Olaf)
“I'll bury you!”
— Unknown
# War & People of the Cold War
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Stalin" (Quotes, The Foundations of Leninism)
“Ch.8”
— Joseph Stalin
General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
People from Georgia (country)
Anti-imperialists
AtheistsM
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi" (Quotes, Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen)
“Page 145”
— Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Heads of state
Muslims from Iran
Monarchs from Iran
Anti-communistsContext: • Remark about snubbing some American generals and politicians at a cinema, as quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, "Why Stalin loved Tarzan and wanted John Wayne shot", The Telegraph (4 June 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Stalin" (Quotes, Contemporary witnesses)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Stalin" (Quotes, Contemporary witnesses)
“Fuck them!”
— Joseph Stalin
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Context: • In 2011, referring to Donald Trump, to Maureen Dowd of The New York Times (Maureen Dowd (December 2, 2018), "The Patrician President and the Reporterette: A Screwball Story", The New York Times retrieved: December 10, 2018; w:Jeff Zeleny (December 5, 2018), Uneasy presidents club convenes at Bush funeral, retrieved: December 10, 2018; (December 5, 2018), "George W. Bush Eulogizes 'Best Father' at Solemn State Funeral", Fortune retrieved: December 10, 2018; Epstein, Jennifer (December 5, 2018), George W. Bush Eulogizes ‘Best Father’ at Solemn State Funeral, retrieved: December 10, 2018; Maureen Dowd (2016), The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics publisher: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781455539246; Goldschlag, William; Janison, Dan (December 3, 2018), "Trump breaks character in show of respect for George H.W. Bush", Newsday retrieved: December 10, 2018)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George H. W. Bush" (Post presidency)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George H. W. Bush" (Post presidency)
“He's an ass.”
— George Herbert Walker Bush
Presidents of the United States
1924 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from BostonP
Context: • From his speech to parliament, October 1979
• Source: Wikiquote: "P. W. Botha" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "P. W. Botha" (Quotes)
“Adapt or die.”
— Pieter Willem Botha
Prime Ministers of South Africa
1916 births
2006 deaths
Presidents of South Africa# War & God of War (series)
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2018 video games
PlayStation 4 video games
God of War (series)
Norse mythology in popular cultureU
2010 video games
PlayStation 3 video games
Video games set in GreeceU
PlayStation 5 video games
Adventure gamesU
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# War & War films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (Irina Spalko)
“JONES!!!!”
— Unknown
2008 films
2008 American films
Action films
Adventure filmsU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Avatar (2009 film)" (Theme song:
"I See You", written by James Horner, Thaddis Harrell, and Simon Franglen, sung by Leona Lewis – YouTube video)
"I See You", written by James Horner, Thaddis Harrell, and Simon Franglen, sung by Leona Lewis – YouTube video)
“EVERMORE!”
— Unknown
2009 films
2009 American films
Science fiction filmsU
1978 films
1970s American films
Drama films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "The Creator (2023 film)" (Alphie)
“To be free.”
— The Creator (2023 film)
2023 films
2020s American films# War & Anti-war activists
Context: • recurring phrase
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Breakfast of Champions (1973):
Full title: Breakfast of Champions, Or Goodbye Blue Monday!)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Breakfast of Champions (1973):
Full title: Breakfast of Champions, Or Goodbye Blue Monday!)
“And so on.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Academics from the United States
Absurdists
Agnostics from the United States
Humanists
Context: • Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., January 17, 2005, Clemson University
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Lowery" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Lowery" (Quotes)
“We are one.”
— Joseph Lowery
Civil rights activists
Political leaders
People from Alabama
1921 births
Musicians from the United States
Singer-songwriters from the United States
Actors from the United States
Stand-up comedians from the United StatesContext: • Final line
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
“"Poo-Tee-Weet?"”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (April 6, 2009)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Rachel Maddow" (Quotes, 2000s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Rachel Maddow" (Quotes, 2000s)
“Thank you Satan.”
— Rachel Maddow
1973 births
Living people
Non-fiction authors from the United States
Women authorsMore Quotes
Context: • Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., January 17, 2005, Clemson University
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Lowery" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Lowery" (Quotes)
“We are one.”
— Joseph Lowery
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" (Quotes, Maj. Jack Grillo)
“Shoot them!”
— Unknown
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "The Creator (2023 film)" (Alphie)
“To be free.”
— The Creator (2023 film)
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Context: • Будем жить!
• Source: Wikiquote: "Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle" (Maestro)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle" (Maestro)
“Let's live!”
— Unknown
1973 films
Foreign language films
Soviet filmsG
Context: • In 2011, referring to Donald Trump, to Maureen Dowd of The New York Times (Maureen Dowd (December 2, 2018), "The Patrician President and the Reporterette: A Screwball Story", The New York Times retrieved: December 10, 2018; w:Jeff Zeleny (December 5, 2018), Uneasy presidents club convenes at Bush funeral, retrieved: December 10, 2018; (December 5, 2018), "George W. Bush Eulogizes 'Best Father' at Solemn State Funeral", Fortune retrieved: December 10, 2018; Epstein, Jennifer (December 5, 2018), George W. Bush Eulogizes ‘Best Father’ at Solemn State Funeral, retrieved: December 10, 2018; Maureen Dowd (2016), The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics publisher: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781455539246; Goldschlag, William; Janison, Dan (December 3, 2018), "Trump breaks character in show of respect for George H.W. Bush", Newsday retrieved: December 10, 2018)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George H. W. Bush" (Post presidency)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George H. W. Bush" (Post presidency)
“He's an ass.”
— George Herbert Walker Bush
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Context: • Alleged last words, after his nurse administered a sedative.
• Source: Wikiquote: "George V of the United Kingdom" (Attributed)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George V of the United Kingdom" (Attributed)
“Goddamn you!”
— Unknown
1865 births
1936 deaths
Monarchs from the United Kingdom
People from LondonU
Context: • Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene I), by William Shakespeare
• Source: Wikiquote: "Assassination" (Quotes:
Alphabetized by author )
• Source: Wikiquote: "Assassination" (Quotes:
Alphabetized by author )
“Et tu Brute?”
— Unknown
Crime
War
AssassinationsU
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Context: • Attributed to General William Tecumseh Sherman. (Not remembered by him). John Koolbeck, of Harlem, Iowa, who was Aide de Camp to Gen. Winslow, testifies that after the battle of Vicksburg, 1861, Gen. Sherman was watching the crossing of the army across a pontoon bridge, at the river Pearl. Koolbeck distinctly heard him say: "War is Hell." See Everybody's. Oct., 1918, p. 71.
• Source: Wikiquote: "War" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "War" (S)
“War is hell.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Michelle Salzman, quoted in Outrage grows after ‘chilling call for genocide’ by Florida Republican
• Source: Wikiquote: "Gaza war" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Gaza war" (S)
“All of them.”
— Unknown
2023 Israel–Hamas warU
2013 video games
PlayStation 3-only video gamesU
1939 films
1930s American films
Films based on novelsP
Context: • From his speech to parliament, October 1979
• Source: Wikiquote: "P. W. Botha" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "P. W. Botha" (Quotes)
“Adapt or die.”
— Pieter Willem Botha
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Context: • George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), p. 5. In the book, these three slogans of the Party were engraved on the Ministry of Truth building.
• Source: Wikiquote: "War and peace" (Quotes, O)
• Source: Wikiquote: "War and peace" (Quotes, O)
“WAR IS PEACE.”
— Unknown
PeaceU
1970 films
Action adventure films
Context: • On losing his position at the Admiralty in 1915. Said to Lord Riddell, as cited in Maxims and Reflections, Chapter I (On Himself), Churchill, Houghton Mifflin Company (1947).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
“I am finished.”
— Winston Churchill
People from Oxford
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Politicians from England
1874 births
Context: • DoD News Briefing on the issue of looting and chaos in Baghdad, Saturday, April 11, 2003 http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2367
• Source: Wikiquote: "Donald Rumsfeld" (Quotes, 2000s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Donald Rumsfeld" (Quotes, 2000s)
“Stuff happens.”
— Donald Rumsfeld
United States Secretaries of Defense
Businesspeople from the United States
Politicians from ChicagoQuote Copied!