#war

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#drew #first #heath #i #lessons

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. ↗

— William Hurt

#aware #being #existence #fact #me

The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. ↗

— William Hurt

#aware #david #director #everything #going

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. ↗

— King Hussein

#first #first time #gulf #gulf war #i

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

#blocks #burden #civilized #developing #development

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#full #hilarious #i #i think #know

But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public. ↗

— John Hutton

#challenge #challenges #confidence #create #economy

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human