Margaret Mead War Quotations
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- Sun Tzu
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Winston Churchill
- Abraham Lincoln
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- George W Bush
- Thomas Jefferson
- Carl Von Clausewitz
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- Ronald Reagan
- Noam Chomsky
- Adolf Hitler
- William Shakespeare
- Albert Einstein
- Kurt Vonnegut
- George Orwell
- Douglas Macarthur
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- John F Kennedy
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Ninety Nine Quotes
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.
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Real Quotes
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, [...] We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.