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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. read more
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That read more
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so read more
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
