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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

War, Nature, Beauty, Truth

"Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

War, Nation, Perception, Identity

"All war is based on deception."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

War, Deception

"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

War, Peace, Politics, Truth

"You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

War, Understanding, History, Violence

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

War, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."

Henry Miller, American Author

War, Work, Failure, Earth

"It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

War, Tradition, Truth, Irony

"War is horrible because it strangles youth."

Philip Kearny, American Soldier

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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

War

"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."

Patriotism

"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

Finance

"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."

War

"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"

War

"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."

War

"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."

Nation

"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

Media

"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."

Patriotism

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

Nation