"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

War, Discipline, Community, Force

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"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

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"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

War, Violence, History, Conflict

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

War, Responsibility, Death, Power

"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."

Joe Baca, American Politician

War, America, Beginning, Country

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

War, Conflict, Opportunity, Survival

"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

War, Army

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

War, Nation, Renunciation, Self

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

War, Killing, Minority, World

"War is the business of barbarians."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

War, Business

"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

War, Destruction, Irony, Murder

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, British Author

War, Peace, Strength, Freedom

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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

Science, Business, God, Laws

"Time itself comes in drops."

Time,

"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."

Life, Living, Worth

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

Cause, Choice, Difference, Man

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

History, Philosophy

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

Force, Holiday, Man

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

Life,

"An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation."

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"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

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