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The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly read more
The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is read more
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers read more
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
