"War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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George Orwell, British Author

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Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

Oliver Stone, American Director

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

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"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."

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"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."

"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity."

"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together."

"War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter."

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

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