War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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tiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · submitted 1999
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rh5oemag · submitted 1997
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
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/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/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/4vs8cciz · submitted 1997
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
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/qgj3ivvu · submitted 1997
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · 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/v6pxskz7 · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · submitted 1997
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
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
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