War Quotes
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
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Peace is more difficult than war.
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.