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War and Peace
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 2001)
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 ·
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in War and Peace
Catch-22 (paperback)# · Not So Good (31 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Not So Good (42 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (47 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
War Games (VHS (NTSC))# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
The Greek Way (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted (updated 1998)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
# · Unrated · submitted 1998
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel (updated 1998)
When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.
Unknown, in War and Peace
# · Unrated · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1998
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (18 ratings) · submitted 1997
To save your world you asked this man to die;<BR>Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace
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