Ernst Junger Quotes
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
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I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.
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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
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Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.
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I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
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You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
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I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file.
