"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."

War, Lie, Lies, World

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"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."

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"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

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"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower."

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"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."

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"A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!"

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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."

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