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Letter "W" » War
"And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race."
Author: Mark Twain
About: War
"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."
Author: Tzu Sun
About: War
"Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy."
Author: Anonymous
About: War
"In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed."
Author: Anonymous
About: War
"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married."
Author: Abigail Van Buren
About: War
"The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized."
Author: Thomas Vian
About: War
"You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'"
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
About: War
"It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war we have followed through with a new rise in our standard of living by the application of war-taught knowledge for the benefit of the world. It will be the same with the atomic bomb principles."
Author: Thomas J. Watson
About: War
"We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves."
Author: Alan Watts
About: War
"'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?'"
Author: Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
About: War
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