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" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "
John Stuart Mill
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" No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. "
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" The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war. "
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" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "
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" The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. "
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" I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. "
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" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "
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" War is never a lasting solution for any problem. "
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" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "
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" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "
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" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "
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" The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. "
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" Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Who
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" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "
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" In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. "
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" 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. "
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" The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. "
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" It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war. "
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" Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do! "
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" Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor. "
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" Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. "
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