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

War, Enemy, Future, States

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

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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."

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"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."

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