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  • John Milton Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Kin Hubbard Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • John Milton Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
    Letter to Cromwell
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Pierre Corneille Peace is produced by war.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • James Thomson Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • John F. Kennedy People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Winston Churchill Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • C. Wright Mills Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Burr Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Virgil Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... [Rule 2] is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
    Speech in House of Lords, 30 May 1962
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Keller Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Olson Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
    The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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