War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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tiny.ag/jaishdmt · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (914 ratings) · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ucs9vnd3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (829 ratings) · 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/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/xm0eggq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
tiny.ag/rkg7iuvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (3018 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (823 ratings) · 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/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · 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/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · 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/d6zsoa2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · ★★☆☆ Fair (494 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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