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“You see, in my time, no one eats real meat anymore. Much of the food tastes like quinoa that’s been pummeled by days of acid rain, because that’s what it is.”

Book:Back To You

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“War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?" he said. "Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?" "Absol—well, okay." "Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?" "All right, I'll grant you that, but—" "Saving civilization from a horde of—" "It doesn't do any good in the long run is what I'm saying, Nobby, if you'd listen for five seconds together," said Fred Colon sharply. "Yeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?”

War Civilization Slavery Good Totalitarianism Long Run

Book:Thud!

Source: Thud!

“Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill”

War Animorphs

Book:The Alien

Source: The Alien

“War made the state, and the state made war”

War International Relations The State

Author:Charles Tilly

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.”

Poetry Dullness

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“How could she compare the lives lost? One genocide against another—how did they balance on the scale of justice? And who was she, to imagine that she could make that comparison?”

War Justice Genocide

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.”

War Military Patriotism Geography Soldiers Countries The Navy

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don’t suppose that’s the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.”

War

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief and then one by one, we stood tall and came together and began to sing of life and love and all that is good and true And I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.”

War Music Ancient Songs

Book:Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

Source: Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

“We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks—weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one.”

War Battle Weapons Bravery Resilience Fight Zafira Iskandar Hafsah Faizal Sands Of Arwiya

Book:We Free the Stars

Source: We Free the Stars

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