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Letter "W" » War
«Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
barbaric, barbarity, collectively, individually, revolt
«Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.»
Author: Guy de Maupassant
| About:
Government,
War
| Keywords:
captain, ship, shipwreck, shipwrecked, shipwrecks
«Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
element, falsehood, in the air
«Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity»
«Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Education,
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
Establishing, lasting
«Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat.»
«Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
arms, clothed, cold, Cold Fire, Fed, fired, gun, hunger, hungered, hungering, hungers, laborers, launched, launches, launching, rocket, rockets, scientists, signified, signifies, signifying, spending, sweat, theft, thefts, The Genius, The Rocket, The Scientists, warship
«Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
War
| Keywords:
accumulate, experienced, friction, inconceivable, producing, simplest
«Endless money forms the sinews of war.»
«Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.»
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