"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

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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."

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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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Sacrifice, Hope, Peace

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

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Truth, Myth, Wisdom, Power

"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

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"War is what happens when language fails."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

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"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

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"A scientist should be the happiest of men."

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"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

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"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."

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"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

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"The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win."

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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."

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

"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."

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

"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

"War is what happens when language fails."

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

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"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

"A scientist should be the happiest of men."

"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."

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"We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons."

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"The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win."