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/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/pfpxawj8 · submitted 1997

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · submitted 1997

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · submitted 1997

I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

tiny.ag/rh5oemag · submitted 1997

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

tiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · submitted 1999

All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/4vs8cciz · submitted 1997

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

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/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

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