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• Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Rights

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• After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, People, Hopeless

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• Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Ends, Pacifism

  "Einstein on Peace".

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• How is it possible to have a civil war?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

  John Fowles

  Love, Men, Laughing

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Brutality, Spirit

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service

  Smedley Butler

  Military, Order, Typical

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• Kill them all, God will recognise his own.

  Arnaud Amalric

  Gods Will, Recognise, Total War

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Humanity, Unfair

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• [Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

  William R. Looney III

  Country, Peace, Oil

  "A Lot For Access" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 1996.

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• The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

  Matthew of Edessa

  Fighting, Blood, Rivers

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• The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Accountability, United States

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Men, Conflict

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.111

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• The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
  [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

  Victor Hugo

  Eagles

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• There was a stately drama writ
  By the hand that peopled the earth and air,
  And set the stars in the infinite,
  And made night gorgeous and morning fair;
  And all that had sense to reason knew
  That bloody drama must be gone through.
  Some sat and watched how the action veered--
  Waited, profited, trembled, cheered--
  We saw not clearly nor understood,
  But yielding ourselves to the masterhand,
  Each in his part as best he could,
  We played it through as the author planned.

  Alan Seeger

  Morning, Stars, Drama

  Alan Seeger, “The Hosts”

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• Laws are inoperative in war

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Military, Law, Lawyer

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• If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Greatest Victory, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

  Henry Ford

  Fire, Doe, Hazards

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Fighting, Victory

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, Party, Divine Right

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• One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

  Stefan Halper

  Peace, Keys, Democracy

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• All war is deception.

  Sun Tzu

  Deception

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• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Adventure, Heads Or Tails

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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