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“They studied the infinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history.”

War

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

“You needn't worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance.”

War Misery Dramatic Irony Horrors Of War

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

“we have imagined that the war was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies.”

War

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

“I was impressed. I realized that nations could never acknowledge their own wars as tragedies, but that families not only could but had to.”

War

Book:Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

Source: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“But if today is really in honor of a hundred children murdered in a war," he said, "is today a day for a thrilling show? The answer is yes, on one condition: that we, the celebrants, are working tirelessly to reduce the stupidity and viciousness of ourselves and of all mankind.”

War Sacrifice Veterans

Book:Cat’s Cradle

Source: Cat’s Cradle

“That war only made billionaires out of millionaires. Today's war is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”

War Progress Military Industrial Complex War Profiteering

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by the way. Order couldn’t be restored in Indochina until the people kicked us out. That war only made billionaires out of millionaires. Today's war is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”

War Billionaire War Profiteering

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”

War Hate Violence

Author:Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“On other days we have wars as horrible as anything you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments.”

War Philosophy Peace Human Nature Reflection Denial Existentialism Escapism

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

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