"O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label."

Andrews, C. D. · War · 1 fans >>
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"The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene."

Arendt, Hannah · War · 1 fans >>
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Asquith, Margot · War · 1 fans >>
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"War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations."

Bagehot, Walter · War · 0 fans >>
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"The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness."

Baudelaire, Charles · War · 0 fans >>
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"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

Baudouin I · War · 1 fans >>
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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

Benedict, Ruth · War · 1 fans >>
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"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Benn, Tony · War · 1 fans >>
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"The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized."

Bernhardi, Friedrich Von · War · 0 fans >>
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"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."

Bethe, Hans A. · War · 1 fans >>
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