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“There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.”

May War Political Results Situation Civilization Consequence Tyranny Imperfect Aggression Historic Inheritance Refusal

Book:Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

Source: Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

“'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.”

“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”

War Politics Easy Serious Consequence Bloody Seriousness Messy

Author:Oliver Stone

“Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.”

War Life Is Peace Consequence Owners Anti War Antiwar

Author:James Wolcott

“Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”

People War Enough Individual Modern Consequence Stress Insanity Collectives Immune Modern War

Book:Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited

“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”

“The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?”

Giving Doe War Matter Might Spiritual Form Purpose Evil Answers Results Materials Consequence Exceed Total War Hiroshima Moralist Crux

Book:Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

“Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.”

Thinking Kind War States Facts Government Interest Common Leader Clear Wind Revolution Fool Speech Consequence Opponents Founding Great Leader Partisans Oratory Common Interests

Book:A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.”

People War Community Hurt Enemy Protect Consequence Careful Stranger Related Civil War Spokes Trusting Each Other

Author:Ishmael Beah

“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”

“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”

Source: Simple Passion

“This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.”

“In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.”

World War Age Mankind Pride Kings Consequence Scripture Confusion No War Chronology

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences”

War Ends Effects Consequence Bills Accord Unwind

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

People Should Has Beens War Would Be Able Joy Simple Poor Fronts Consequence Should Have Misfortunes Better Off Should Have Been Wisest

Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.”

Source: If I lived my life again

“And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday; and that Lord died as a consequence, may God absolve him! And you should know that there was at least an acre of land behind the Templars, which was so covered with arrows fired by the Saracens, that none of the ground could be seen.”

Knows Should May War Eye Lost Behinds Lord Land Brother Masters Battle Consequence Died Covered Arrows Tuesday Acres Medieval War Templars

Author:Jean de Joinville

“The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.”

Ifs Art War Force Battle Consequence Weak Size Defense Strikes Gaps Relative Isolated Troops Strict Art Of War Adversaries Supplies Scarce Guarded

Author:Sun Tzu

“It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.”

“The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.”

War Science Courses Consequence Direct Experience Winter Nuclear Physics Experiments Investigation Predictions Governing Nuclear War Nuclear Winter

Author:Carl Sagan

“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”

World War Law Break Divine Particular Glory Draws Consequence Attraction Mysterious War Of The Worlds Surround World War I Break Out Inexplicable

Book:The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

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