"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

War, Courage, Nobility, Tension

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"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

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Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"To hold a pen is to be at war."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them."

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"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."

Building

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

Nothing

"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."

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"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."

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"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."

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"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."

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"The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile."

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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

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"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."

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"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."

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