"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."

War, Cruelty, Fantasy, World

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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."

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"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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

War, Fear, Truth, Life

"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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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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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."

"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

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

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

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