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wage war against

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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. Christian Lous Lange

Ludicrous concepts...like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary? Terry Jones

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. Nicolas Sarkozy

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. Daniel H. Wilson

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Kahlil Gibran

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