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“The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!”
“-- all that you left behind when you signed up. when you dropped out of that world, went out on the plains with the thousands of other eager, nervous, frightened young men to push the arms of civil...”
“What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York's dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to spare his life. They cu...”
“The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.”
“Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.”
“Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety...”
“Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.”
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means”
“I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's abou...”
“Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.”
“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy craft...”
“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness o...”
“You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.”
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
“It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.”
“The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.”
“Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.”
“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood, nor hears the b...”
“I wonder where he lies. Wedged under a rock, with a thousand small mouths already sucking on his spongy flesh. Or floating still, on and down, on and down, to wider, calmer reaches of the river. I ...”
“Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.”
