War and Peace
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tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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/ckmjpqso · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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/onprshw2 · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
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/d6zsoa2q · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/owyunzte · submitted 1997
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · submitted 1997
To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · submitted 1997
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ry32bjva · submitted 1997
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/tldrjftc · submitted 1997
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rkg7iuvl · submitted 1997
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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