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Thomas Hobbes

"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."

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Donna Grant

"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."

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Donna Grant

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

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Donna Grant

"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."

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Donna Grant

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

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Donna Grant

"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

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Donna Grant

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

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Donna Grant

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

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Donna Grant

"War is the business of barbarians."

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Donna Grant

"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

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Donna Grant

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

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Thomas Hobbes
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."

Life

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Thomas Hobbes
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."

Glory

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Thomas Hobbes
"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

Competition

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Thomas Hobbes
"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."

War

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Thomas Hobbes
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."

Family

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Thomas Hobbes
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

Thought

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Thomas Hobbes
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."

Man

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Thomas Hobbes
"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."

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Thomas Hobbes
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

War

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Thomas Hobbes
"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

Life

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