Quotes 541 till 560 of 646.
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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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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.
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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.
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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War is peace,
Freedom is slavery,
Ignorance is strength.Source: 1984 -
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1 -
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.
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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.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Source: Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
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