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«War hath no fury like a non-combatant»
«War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states»
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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decayed, degraded, patriotic, state of war, ugliest
«War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy»
Author: Walter Millis
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adequacy, bases, Challenges, equity, foreign policy, justice system, Plant The, political economy, political institutions, political system, political systems, productive, virtually
«War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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better off, expectation, well-off
«War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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calculate, increase, involves, taxes, train, unforeseen
«War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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War
«War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Action The, educates, measures, perfects
«War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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War
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entirely, inefficient, instead, instrument, losses, multiplied by, multiplies, multiplying, redress, redressed, redressing
«War is a catalouge of blunders.»
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