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" Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. "

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" Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction. "

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War

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World War I

" War is a defeat for humanity. "

" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "

" When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. "

" There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. "

" In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. "

" I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Cry

War

Tired

" There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. "

" Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. "

" Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground. "

" We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. "

John Lennon

Now

Know

" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "

" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "

" We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. "

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Discipline

World

War

" We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it. "

" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "

" Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. "

" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. "

" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

" Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. "

Sun Tzu

Seek

War

" Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. "

" Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. "

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

" Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. "

" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Color

Black

" In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. "

" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "

George McGovern

Good

Say

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

" We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War. "

" An army marches on its stomach. "