A Quotes
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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
Source: Once There Was a War
“All war is a tragedy and the scourge of humankind. In spite of all the history of death and destruction that precedes us, we still are unable to walk the path of peace and not kill each other. Military equipment manufacturers and the industrial complex as a whole are the world's largest industries.
As the phrase in the song cries out ".. when will they learn, when will they ever learn..'
In the season of Peace, we find ourselves stumbling dessert in a desert of hostility and strife.”
“All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”).
Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”.
Thus, all war is based in metaphor.
All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry.
Poetry (since indefinable) is the sense of seduction.
Therefore, all war is the storytelling of seduction, and seduction is the nature of war.”
Source: Las teorías salvajes
“All war is based on deception.”
“All war is deception.”
“All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.”
“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”
Source: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
“All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.”
Source: On War
“All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
“All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.”
Source: $20,000: A Book
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
Source: The Art of War
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War”
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
“All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.”
“All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.”
“All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.”
“All warriors of a free life share a hardcore mantel that brindles them through troubled times.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All wars are bad, but the worst war is when the bad guys stay in power after the war is over!”
“All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.”
Source: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Works of Melville
“All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.”
“All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.”
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
“All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.”
“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
Source: The select works of Benjamin Franklin
“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”
“All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth”
“All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.”
“All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.”
Source: Soldiers of Salamis
“All wars are in some way related to politics, and the aim of Politics is to obtain power.”
Source: The Enemy of Europe: The Enemy of Our Enemies
“All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.”
“All wars are popular for the first 30 days.”
“All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is ’save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!’ Sometimes it’s ’down with Popery!’ and sometimes ‘Liberty!’ and sometimes ‘Cotton, Slavery and States’ Rights!”
Source: Gone with the wind
“All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?”
Source: Gone with the wind
“All wars are waged against children”
“All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.”
“All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.”
Source: Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov
“All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.”
“All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think
“All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”
“All wars will be settled by sea power.”
“All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.”
“All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.”
“All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.”
“All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel
“All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now.”
“All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.”
Source: A Time To Love
“All was iris-blue, earth and sky together, with a cluster of clouds in the west. The young sun made his way, knee-deep in the grass. The wind scattered the dew like a lively colt. It sent up flights of birds which swam for a while among the waves of the sky, as if drunk and dizzy from screaming, and then suddenly dropped, like handfuls of stones.”
Source: Regain
“All was over in a moment. I had fulfilled my destiny. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”
Source: David Copperfield