War
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet and biographer 1878-1967
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Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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War should be to effect a humanitarian result — not just to kill people and collect real estate.
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No to war! War is not always inevitable - it is always a defeat for humanity.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill.
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Trained to kill, Kill we will.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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We always use evil to prevent greater evil. How much evil must be done to achieve good?
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War is the enemy of the poor.
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War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674Luck: The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French composer, 1803-1869Talent: The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French composer, 1803-1869Equality: The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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Civilization represents a repeating, intertwining cycle of chaos, violence, and order. The old dies so that new can be born. Wars drive technological progress and tighten the bonds that hold us together. Little wonder it’s so hard to kick the habit.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
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War, at its heart, is a paradox. We are all appalled by it but also entranced by it. War is devastating, but it also brings about huge social and medical inventions. War appeals to the worst of human strengths, but it inspires ideals and qualities that are rarely seen in peacetime. And, above all, war is what happens when the things that we want to live for are worth dying for.
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
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War is the enemy of the poor.
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Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
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Any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
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War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.
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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are puniished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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There is many a boy today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
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War would end if the dead could return.
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The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.