Quotes 501 till 520 of 663.
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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
Source: Popolo dItalia (1 February 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism (1933) by John Strachey, p. 65 -
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 3 -
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
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Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
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Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
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Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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