A Quote by Carl Sagan

War is murder writ large.

Carl Sagan

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Large Murder War Writ

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Carl Sagan
American - Scientist
November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

Anna Quindlen

Kids are anarchy writ large.

Jeffrey Kluger

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

George Henry Lewes

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Murray Rothbard

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

David Zindell

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

John Milton

I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

Haj Amin al-Husseini

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Stephen Covey

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

Robert J. Sawyer

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

Leslie Ford

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

James Otis

What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

George Saunders

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.