#wars

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#bombing #country #determined #experience #hearts

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#armaments #civil #economy #extremely #fighting

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done. ↗

— Adam Savage

#behind #build #childhood #do-it-yourself #done

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven. ↗

— Adam Savage

#felt #finally #going #got #heaven

I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#films #haven #i #kind #star

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#eclipse #fact #human #human reason #intolerance

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#being #best #fear #friends #horror

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity. ↗

— William Shatner

#about #air #alarming #breathe #coming

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#deal #excellent #fiction #go #goes

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#differs #feel #fighting #hand #hard