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" The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. "

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" Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! "

" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

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

" 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. "

" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "

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

Carl von Clausewitz

" And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time. "

" War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose. "

Marcus Luttrell

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" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "

" I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? "

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

" 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

" The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. "

Jeannette Rankin

" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "

" When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick. "

" 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. "

Barbara Kingsolver

" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. "

" During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. "

" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "

George Santayana

" Quickness is the essence of the war. "

" The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. "

" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "

Charles Lindbergh

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

Bertrand Russell

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