wage war on
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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?
Leave him alone. He has already met his judge. I wage war on the living, not the dead.
Let us wage war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable, let us activate the different and save the honor of the name.
Wage war on death. Live for love.
Never wage war on religion, nor upon seemingly holy institutions, for this thing has too great a force upon the minds of fools.
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.