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“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”
— John Andrew Holmes
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“In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.”
— Douglas MacArthur
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“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.”
— Geraldine Ferraro
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“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”
— Georges Clemenceau
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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
— William Hazlitt
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“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.”
— Elizabeth I
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“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.”
— Abbie Hoffman
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“Business is a combination of war and sport.”
— Andre Maurois
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“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”
— Howard Thurman
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“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
— Henry A. Wallace
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“Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.”
— Alfred Adler
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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
— William Westmoreland
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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
— Havelock Ellis
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“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.”
— Mick Jagger
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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
— Barbara Tuchman
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“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.”
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”
— Donald Rumsfeld
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“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.”
— John Randolph
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“War is hell.”
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
— Anatole Broyard
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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
— William Burroughs
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