"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."

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"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."

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

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"War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides."

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"War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror."

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"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."

William Tecumseh Sherman, American Soldier

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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."

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"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."

Agreement

"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that."

People

"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."

Truth

"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"

Politics

"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut."

Power

"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."

Expectation

"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."

Press

"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."

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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."

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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."

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