“ As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation. ”
- Robert E. Lee- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ”
- Dorothy Thompson- Copy
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“ Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a corner. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ”
- C.C. Colton- Copy
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“ If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. ”
- John Bright- Copy
- 3K
“ A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. ”
- Kenneth A. Wells- Copy
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“ It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ I have always fought for ideas — until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ”
- Margaret Anderson- Copy
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“ The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 190
“ But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 1K
“ You may have to fight the battle more than once to win the war. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization. ”
- F. L. Lucan- Copy
- 975
“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”
- Ethel Lynn Beers- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet. ”
- Damon Runyon- Copy
- 2.7K
“ You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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