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“It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.”
“To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.”
“Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.”
“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”
“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell...”
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
“--Why are we fighting them?--They're mad. We're sane.--How do we know?--That we're sane?--Yes.--Am I sane?--To all appearances.--And you, do you consider yourself sane?--I do.--Well, there you have...”
“The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”
“Therell always be wars because men love wars. Women dont, but men do..”
“The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.”
“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me throug...”
“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...”
“The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.”
“If there is a war to be fought, we dont consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.”
“You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.”
“Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to his moment which wil...”
“you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way”
“...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”
“Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You wi...”
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smit...”
