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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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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."
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"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."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."
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"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"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."
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"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
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"One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories."
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
People
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
Rights
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work
"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
God
"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
Attention
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
War
"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
Technology
"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
Paradise
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."
Soul
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