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" There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. "

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" We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. "

" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "

" All warfare is based on deception. "

" What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. "

" Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. "

" Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. "

" War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. "

" Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.' "

" Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. "

" 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. "

" You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. "

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" 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. "

" Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. "

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" The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. "

" The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. "

" In war there is no substitute for victory. "

" I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. "

" When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. "

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" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. "

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" The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. "

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