"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Morality, Killing, Conflict

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Sacrifice, Hope, Peace

"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Truth, Myth, Wisdom, Power

"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Regret, Today, Future

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

Stephen King, American Author

War, Weapon, Violence, Truth, Realization

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

H. G. Wells, English Author

War, Blind, Conflict

"And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Violence, Conflict, Peace

"I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

War, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Happiness

"Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

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"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."

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"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then."

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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

"And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder."

"I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end."

"Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes."

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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."

"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

"Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed."

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Imagination decides everything."

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."