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That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved
the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe Oh. — Tim O'Brien

He'd sometimes thought that the War College was really a thinly disguised royal subsidy to the local tavern industry. — Django Wexler

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. — Hugh Bonneville

Maybe war isn't really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it. — Chris Kyle

First, the front lines. They are not lines, really: the war seems to be going on in many places at once. Wooded — Margaret Atwood

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. — Alfred Von Tirpitz

You cannot really get peace. You can only get rid of war. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. — Ellen Key

Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy. — Debasish Mridha

If peace was really within reach wasn't it immoral to fail? — Lawrence Wright

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh. — Billy Childish

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government. — Stefan Molyneux

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak. — Michael Apted

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. — Al McGuire

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. — Andy Rooney

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that? — Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier ever really survives a war. — Audie Murphy

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. — Edward R. Murrow

World War II was the last government program that really worked. — George Will

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for. — Scott Ritter

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. — Lynn Nottage

If the afterlife really is a big war," Kaladin said, "then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep. — Brandon Sanderson

But he didn't survive a war, not really," Augustus said. "He survived a genocide. — John Green

I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties. — John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible. — Peace Pilgrim

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business! — Jerry Brown

The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony. — Arundhati Roy

Not everyone who spoke to you friendly was really your friend. — George R R Martin

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went. — Phil Klay

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell. — Ann Coulter

Nuclear war would really set back cable. — Ted Turner

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. — Carly Simon

After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground. — Garth Ennis

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over. — Bill Kristol

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best. — Kendare Blake

I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About. — J.D. Salinger

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too. — Rosa Brooks

That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in. — Colin Powell

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves. — Paul Watson

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. — Dan Savage

Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely. — Glenn Greenwald

And maps can really point to places
Where life is evil now:
Nanking. Dachau. — W. H. Auden

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really. — Gary D. Schmidt

They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies! — Natalie Babbitt

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war. — Richard M. Daley

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it. — Donna Summer

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life. — Herbert

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a War. — Neal Shusterman

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war. — Vincent Paronnaud

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. — Alice Walker

To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good. — Sun Tzu

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. — Allan Lichtman

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war. — John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about. — Cindy Sheehan

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. — Elliott Abrams

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. — David Hackworth

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. — Sarah Palin

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war. — Barack Obama

No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired. — Margaret Case Harriman

It's so easy, isn't it, to decide the people you're fighting aren't really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them. — Ann Leckie

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. — George W. Bush

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. — Murray N. Rothbard

Daddy said that nobody really wins a war. They only make it look that way. — Arlene Eisenbise

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like. — Angelina Jolie

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. — David Bailey

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack? — Peter Sellers

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change. — Sharron Angle

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. — Debasish Mridha

The Drug War is an addiction, really. — Bill Maher

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business. — Ulysses S. Grant

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed! — Margaret Junkin Preston

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam. — Zach Braff

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live. — J.D. Salinger

I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. I — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok

I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans. — Peta Wilson

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it. — Kenneth Waltz

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. — Larry Niven

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. — Zoe Whittall

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are. — Glenn Greenwald

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know. — David Lloyd George

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. — Moby

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. — Ludwig Von Mises

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal. — Patch Adams