"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."

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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."

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

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

Juan Cole, American Educator

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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

James Dickey, American Novelist

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"It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ..."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

June Carter Cash, American Musician

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"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

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"If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis."

Howard Fineman, American Journalist

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."

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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."

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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."

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