Top 100 Waging Quotes

#1. A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Gerald R. Ford

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#2. Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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#3. I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

Bryant H. McGill

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#4. On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Fredrik Bajer

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#5. Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Molly Ivins

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#6. Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it ... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

E.B. White

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#7. WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

Jesse Ventura

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#8. A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Alexander Cockburn

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#9. Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Theodore C. Sorensen

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#10. This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Maxine Waters

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#11. The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

George Orwell

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#12. Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

Scott McClellan

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#13. State and local law enforcement agencies were granted the authority to keep, for their own use, the vast majority of cash and assets they seize when waging the drug war.

Michelle Alexander

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#14. Foresight is the cause of Europe's present wars. If one would take pains to forsee nothing, the whole world would be tranquil, and I do not believe that one would be worse off for not waging war.

Abbe Galiani

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#15. Most people spend their whole lives waging war - against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all.
from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS

Germaine Shames

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#16. Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov's habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.

Neal Stephenson

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#17. Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Elie Wiesel

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#18. The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#19. There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

Patty Murray

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#20. I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

Rachel Held Evans

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#21. Reports of coalition bombs on civilian targets such as flour-mills wins more converts. "Many people now view the coalition as waging war on Islam, not extremism," says Usama Shehadeh, a Quietist preacher in Amman who fears he is losing his flock.

Anonymous

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#22. Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

Jane Fonda

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#23. I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

Adolf Hitler

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#24. The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

Jill Greenberg

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#25. Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not ... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

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#26. A third-grader when WWII started, I was also waging my own "war effort." It was deeply magical thinking - I really thought what I did or didn't do could save lives, win battles, bring my dad and uncles home safe. And conversely, that if I screwed up, they were all in greater danger.

Ann Medlock

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#27. The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

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#28. you've exceeded expectations for a prince charming pretty much every step of the way." "I still have bad habits," he pointed out. "Leaving my socks on the floor. Waging wholesale slaughter and pillaging innocent worlds. Swearing.

Terry Mancour

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#29. Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#30. Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

Paulo Coelho

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#31. Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Patricia Ireland

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#32. But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

Ulrich Beck

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#33. The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

George W. Bush

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#34. Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Daniel Berrigan

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#35. She'd been waging a battle against tears, but now, in a sudden break, she lost it.

Ransom Riggs

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#36. Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.

Joshua

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#37. He bit his lip, struggling to make words out of the war waging itself in his chest.
"I don't know what this makes me," he managed at last.
Hook laughed, not unkindly. "It makes you whatever you want it to make you.

Austin Chant

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#38. American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

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#39. Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

Saint Augustine

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#40. Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Albert Camus

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#41. When in reality she is waging a mild battle with that providential caution of the old earth of and with and by which she lives. This time she conquers.

William Faulkner

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#42. Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Fredrik Bajer

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#43. For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

David Horowitz

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#44. I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Cindy Sheehan

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#45. At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

Franklin Graham

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#46. All too often the people of our culture think they're really doing something if they're out there fighting bad things and getting laws passed. Just look at what we've accomplished by outlawing drugs and waging a trillion-dollar War on Drugs! (Nothing!)

Daniel Quinn

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#47. He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly, and he could love them for that;

Hermann Hesse

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#48. They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.

Todd Harris

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#49. But from an early age she would have known literarily what she at twenty-one discovered empirically: there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.

Stacy Schiff

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#50. But all along she had held within her a second story underneath the first, waging a terrible and silent battle with her certainty.

Lauren Groff

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#51. Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.

Salman Rushdie

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#52. The ocean doesn't want me today,
But I'll come back tomorrow to play.
The riptide is waging
And the life guard's away
But the ocean doesn't want me today

Tom Waits

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#53. We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

Otto Schily

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#54. Walking on a path of uncertainties,
Shuffling on the probabilities of uncertainties,
Waging on the possibilities of uncertainties,
Waiting for the occurrences of uncertainties,
Solving the mysteries of wandering uncertainties,
We move, lead and live.

Pushpa Rana

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#55. I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

Edmond Rostand

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#56. I'm waging war, love. And the only way to win this kind of war is to make you want to lose.

Lisa Kleypas

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#57. It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

Kendrick Meek

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#58. There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

J. Sterling

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#59. So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.

John F. Kerry

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#60. It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

Bobby Jindal

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#61. My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

Patrick Henry

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#62. I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!

Adolf Hitler

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#63. This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

James Forrestal

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#64. As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

Samantha Power

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#65. I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

Gerald Massey

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#66. Regard the Franj! Behold with what obstinacy they fight for their religion, while we, the Muslims, show no enthusiasm for waging holy war.

Kenneth S. Saladin

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#67. Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

Aaron Allston

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#68. I admire you. And I admire the battle you are waging with your heart.

Paulo Coelho

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#69. I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

George W. Bush

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#70. Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held the House only since 2011 and have been out of power in the Senate and presidency since 2009.

Victor Davis Hanson

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#71. Be careful, Princess. When waging a war of the heart, you must only fight if you are absolutely sure you can win.

Sherry D. Ficklin

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#72. Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.

Norm MacDonald

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#73. During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

John Pilger

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#74. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

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#75. George W. Bush committed impeachable offenses in waging war in Iraq.

Stan Goff

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#76. They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

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#77. In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

Greta Van Susteren

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#78. That Islam you see on TV does not represent me,
I'm too busy waging jihad against myself,
My own nafs are my enemy.
I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam,
Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand ...

Boonaa Mohammed

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#79. Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Susan Griffin

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#80. Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#81. Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher.

J.K. Rowling

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#82. This book is a salute to the scientists and the surgeons, running along in the wake of combat, lab coats flapping. Building safer tanks, waging war on filth flies. Understanding turkey vultures. T

Mary Roach

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#83. I watched from afar with a veil over my real emotions, only letting the outside see what I wanted to show, while on the inside I was waging a war I never wanted to fight. What other option did we have? I'd had a thousand options. But I gave them all up when I decided to bury my emotions.

Anie Michaels

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#84. The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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#85. For no amount of our screaming at the people in charge to change things can change them... the powers bent on waging war against the poor and the young and the "other" will only be moved to kinship when they observe it.

Father Greg Boyle

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#86. Before I met the Jesuits, I'd never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

Pat Conroy

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#87. Do you love him?"
"Would it make a difference if I did?"
He's quiet, seemingly waging his answer. "No. Not at all."
~Lawrence

Mia Asher

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#88. Government is waging war against the people.

L. Neil Smith

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#89. he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#90. Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a long time and become an unquestioned habit, does that mean it should be allowed to continue.

Sharon Gannon

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#91. We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

Josephine Baker

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#92. It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Queen Elizabeth II

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#93. waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.

Minae Mizumura

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#94. I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

Bernie Siegel

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#95. Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Mark Kennedy

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#96. The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

Bernie Sanders

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#97. So much for the crusade against drugs ... all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

Alexander Cockburn

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#98. Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

David Burr Gerrard

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#99. Serious people never stopped waging their war on joy and pleasure, and they were both relentless and tireless.

Steven Erikson

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#100. ...but in any case, he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched by hand.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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