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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

—Philippa Gregory

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Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)

—Caius Iulius

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Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foolish not to subject...

—Susan Sontag

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People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.

—Aysha Taryam

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As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics of war become more art than science. Intangibles such as training, confidence, leadership,...

—Robert H.

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This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)… Everyone was saying… But the British Prime Minister said, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But...

—Anne Frank

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Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

—Siegfried Sassoon

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How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

—Suzanne Collins

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Akasha, for two thousand years I have watched,’ he said. ‘Call me the Roman in the Arena if you will and tell me tales of the ages that went before. When I knelt at your...

—Anne Rice

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A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

—Steven Galloway

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It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle….

—Burton Egbert

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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE… AND BEG EVERYONE… TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.

—Widad Akrawi

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Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,’ said Cleopatra, ‘with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything...

—Charles Dickens

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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

—Wilfred Owen

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Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

—Agnostic Zetetic

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Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam.

—C. P.

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I’m right; you’re wrong.

—Charles F.

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Inman’s only thought looking on the enemy was, “Go home.

—Charles Frazier

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The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

—Brian A.

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Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither’d leaves that autumn shaketh down,Yet would the Soldan by his conquering powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a...

—Christopher Marlowe

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I don’t care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations…I don’t think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren’t...

—Graham Greene

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I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

—George A.

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There is an old saying that goes ‘Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man’. It is also said, ‘Two hands must meet to make a sound’. The atrocities that happened here weren’t...

—Hwang Sok-yong

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It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.

—Gertrude Stein

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The great thing about being a government is you can wage nonsensical wars, and people will line up to give their lives in exchange for small paychecks and being called patriots.

—Jarod Kintz

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The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

—Hiromu Arakawa

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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the ‘right’ one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more...

—David G. McAfee

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Im Frieden begraben die Söhne ihre Väter, im Krieg begraben Väter ihre Söhne.

—Homer

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

—Desiderius Erasmus

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War has changed.It’s no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It’s an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.War–and it’s consumption of life–has become a well-oiled machine.War has changed.ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged...

—David Hayter

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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

—Cormac McCarthy

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A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

—George Orwell

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I bowl with cannonballs, because this is war, 1863 style. I could probably bowl a perfect 300 game using only half the deaths at Gettysburg.

—Jarod Kintz

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A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Tracer lighting up the sky.It’s another families’ turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says,He has been here.And I see no bravery,No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.

—James Blunt

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For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

—David Jones

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We’re not very different from one another, not different at all, in fact. We’re all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It’s a lie about us being different. It’s...

—Harry Bernstein

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I soon found out this much:–terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;–but it kills, if a man thinks about it.

—Erich Maria

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Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.

—Craig Stone

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And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells’s indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in his Utopia of all patriotic boundaries. He says in his innocent way that...

—G.K. Chesterton

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They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians,...

—Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l’être que je puis être amené à supprimer.

—Gabriel Marcel

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Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But...

—Christine de

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War didn’t scare me. I just didn’t want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that–I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never...

—John Green

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In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

—Ernest Hemingway

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

—Lee Strauss

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Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo.

—Keith Lowe

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It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and bittersweet smell of burning homes, temples, and palaces. It made my...

—Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

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