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“War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.”
“War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.”
“war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”
“War grows out of ordinary human nature.”
Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel
“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“War guilt can lead to ever more militant acts of self-justification. Once blood has been shed in dubious circumstances, those involved often try to brazen it out: first, through blaming the injured party for forcing them to act thus; and second, through affirming the validity of their violence by persisting with it.”
Source: The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.”
“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“War had made its grip on the civilians, who were overwhelming, purely innocent and exposed to ritualised slaughters.”
“War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.”
“War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
“War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.”
Source: De Quincey's Works ...: Miscellanies: chiefly narrative
“War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.”
“War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.”
“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
“War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.”
“War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.”
“War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states”
Source: On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
“War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.”
Source: Production of Security, The
“War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.”
“War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.”
“War has changed.
It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.
War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine.
War has changed.
ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.
Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.
War…has changed.
The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.
War…has changed.
When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.”
“War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.”
Source: Le journal de Zlata
“war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”
“War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.”
“War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man's advance involves a profound misreading of the biological analogy.
The warlike nations do not inherit the earth; they represent the decaying human element.”
Source: The Great Illusion
“War has no winners and peace, no losers”
“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.”
“War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.”
“War hath no fury like a non-combatant.”
“War, he realized, had a presence. On Avcırga, war was built into all things, forms and functions revolving around its grim demands. Technology was, with few exceptions, heavily armored, designed to withstand shock and heat. Buildings were entrenched and fortified to weather artillery storms and radiation bursts, to keep those who sheltered there alive through endless battles. Cities were strategically placed and designed around redundant systems. All so that casualties would be minimized when the inevitable conflict came.”
“War here, war there, crime everywhere, yet nobody cares about nothin’ but the Beatles and some guy who paints giant soup cans and sells them as art, this movie star, that movie star, blah-blah-blah. The world’s a nuthouse. It’s insane. It’s scary. It’s—”
“—those Bilderbergers,” I suggested.
“Ain’t truer words ever been spoken.”
Source: The City
“War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.”
“War hysteria and dark nationalism deactivates the mass prefrontal cortex ( the rational brain ) and activates the amygdala ( the fear centers ). They are the key tools for dark democracy.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”
“War.
I had been in many, on the right side and some on the wrong. It was disturbing, horrific, soul-wrenching, hopeless, bleak, depressing, bloody, violent, never-ending, scary, monstrous, overwhelming, inhuman, disheartening, and chilling.
None of those words truly captured the feeling when you were in it. Living it. Breathing it. Your senses couldn't take it all in, holding onto a singular thought.
Survival.”
Source: Shadow Lands
“War ich kindisch? Verdammt, ja.
War ich wütend? Und wie.
Hatte er das verdient? Womöglich nicht.
Die Antworten der ersten zwei Fragen übertönten die der dritten.”
Source: Road to Forgiveness
“War in heaven makes no peace on earth.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.”
“War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.”
Source: Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems
“War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.”
Source: Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn
“War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman - you must live through defeat...”
Source: Sita's Ramayana
“War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.”
Source: Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
“War inside countries is all too common.”
“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”
“War is 90% information.”
“War is a bad bad thing, but you know what's worse - it's the silence of the civilians who don't even raise an eyebrow at the tomfoolery of the warmongers.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.”
“War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See