"Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."

War, Habit, Excitement, Life

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"Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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George Orwell, British Author

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"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."

George Orwell, British Author

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

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

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"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."

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

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"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

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

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"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

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"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

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