Best quotes by Richard Engel on War
Checkout quotes by Richard Engel on War
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‟ War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
- Richard Engel
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‟ In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists to take power. A war erupted, killing between 100,000 to 200,000 people, depending on which estimates are to be believed.
- Richard Engel
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‟ War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
- Richard Engel
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‟ A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
- Richard Engel
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‟ I think war should be illegal.
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‟ War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
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‟ For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.
- Richard Engel
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‟ In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.
- Richard Engel