"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, American Clergyman

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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

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"All war is based on deception."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

John Green, American Author

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"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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

"All war is based on deception."

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

"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis."

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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things."

"I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it."

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."

"Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings."

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."