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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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Tony Benn
Tony Benn books
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich books
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51 votes
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Thomas Hobbes
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44 votes
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
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Alexander Blok
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57 votes
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
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Henry David Thoreau
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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
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Rudyard Kipling
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Douglas Macarthur
Douglas Macarthur books
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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
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Jose Narosky
Jose Narosky books
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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
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Francis Meehan
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Morality is contraband in war.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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50 votes
O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
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C. D. Andrews
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118 votes
Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
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Frieda Lawrence
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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Ronald Reagan
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125 votes
Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam books
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43 votes
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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58 votes
Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?
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Leslie Parrish-Bach
Leslie Parrish-Bach books
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26 votes
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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39 votes
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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Arthur Koestler
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55 votes
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
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Albert Einstein
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51 votes
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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George Orwell
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29 votes
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Ezra Pound
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32 votes
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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Henry David Thoreau
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34 votes
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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Sun Tzu
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31 votes
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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William Hazlitt
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13 votes
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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German Proverb
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War is a contagion.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt books
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31 votes
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
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32 votes
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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Desiderius Erasmus
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59 votes
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht books
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63 votes
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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T. S. Eliot
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58 votes
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
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Karl Von Clausewitz
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War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?
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Gerhard Kocher
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38 votes
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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118 votes
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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Lewis Mumford
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55 votes
War is the trade of Kings.
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John Dryden
John Dryden books
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
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John Dryden
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60 votes
Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.
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Rachel Manor
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Ezra Pound
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We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
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William Shakespeare
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49 votes
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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Wilfred Owen
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43 votes
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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Jeannette Rankin
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