"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents."

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"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents."

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"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

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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."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."

Charles Krauthammer, American Journalist

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"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

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