"The object of war is to survive it."

War, Survival, Strategy, Conflict

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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

John Green, American Author

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

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"I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!"

Imagination

"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

Sympathy

"You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else."

People

"As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one."

Feminism

"All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone, let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down."

Tolerance

"Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives."

Fate

"I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again, forever."

Art

"You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them."

Friendship

"Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God."

Morality

"The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue."

Memory