Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Lois McMaster Bujold War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Aldous Huxley War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alfred Adler War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • George Orwell War is peace,
    Freedom is slavery,
    Ignorance is strength.
    1984
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • John Abbott War is the science of destruction.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lewis Mumford War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • John Dryden War is the trade of Kings.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller War is the ultimate tool of politics.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Georges Clemenceau War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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