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  • The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

    War   Eight   Sky  
    Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press
  • If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

    Christian   War   Sleep  
    Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House
  • So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?

    War   Years   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

  • Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

    Running   War   Risk  
  • My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

    Morning   Memories   War  
    Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”
  • There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

    War   Book   Men  
    Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.104, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

    Peace   War   Men  
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics
  • When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

    War   Past   Thinking  
    FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Oct 16, 2013
  • Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

    War   Lying   Book  
  • During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

    Country   War   World  
  • In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

    Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House
  • You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!

    Country   War   Men  
    "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, July 22, 2005.
  • I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

    War   Past   Use  
  • When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

    Strong   Stars   War  
  • What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.

    War   Numbers   Law  
  • In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

    Running   War   Hero  
    Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”
  • I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

    War   Lawyer   Dropping  
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