What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?
W.E.B. Du BoisStichwörter: war imperialism aggression arms militarism
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...
Stephen KingStichwörter: imagination war destruction folly
Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.
Roma TearneStichwörter: war torture victim
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]
Winston S. ChurchillArms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
David T. DellingerStichwörter: war militarism arms-race
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: war militarism
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
Chris HedgesThe war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.
Stichwörter: inspirational history war
Surely--But I am very off from that.
From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow
that was my clean naivete and my faith.
This morning, men deliver wounds and death.
They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.
And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.
Stichwörter: doubt war romance
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
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