"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."

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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."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."

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"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."

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