"War is the business of barbarians."

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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

War, Ethics, Death, Humanity

"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Regret, Today, Future

"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

War, Help, Words

"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

War, Evil, Survival, Destruction

"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."

Charles Krauthammer, American Journalist

War, Doves, Iraq

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers, American Actor

War, Civilization

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

Ronald Reagan, American President

War, Violence, World

"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

War, Living, World, World war

"It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

War, Living

"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"

Victor Hugo, French Author

War, Men, Brothers

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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

Leadership

"There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear."

Influence

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue."

Endurance

"Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide."

Choice

"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

Strength

"As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision."

Courage

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Inspirational

"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."

Ambition

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

Politics

"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."

Politics