War and Peace
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tiny.ag/jaishdmt · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/db2sazsg · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/ucs9vnd3 · submitted 1997
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/ghcdyyrg · submitted 1997
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/5i2ylath · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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