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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. A.Wellesley.

We have art in order not to die of the truth. F.Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit
which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power
lies even in the wounds one receives. F.Nietzsche

As long as war is regarded as wicked,
it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar,
it will cease to be popular. O.Wilde

But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal. V.Kilmer

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun.
Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane. J.Cusak

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. S Sontag

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. A. Hitler

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. J. Stalin

All war is deception. S Tzu

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. W. Rogers

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. U.S. Grant

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. T. Mann

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripedes


A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. A Einstien

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. J. kennedy

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. M. Zedong

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. A. Bierce

All the vast contributions of antiquity in government and law, in science, letters, art and philosophy,
all the building of the culture and civilization that still remain the foundation stones of human society,
was the work of the few free subsisting on the many un-free. R.Cram

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile.
And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. A. Camus

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. G Chesterson

Art is anything you can get away with. M Mcluhan

You only have to look back at 1935.
There were people then who were against France arming itself, and look what happened. J Chirac

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands,
takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. E. Young

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. W. Rogers

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters
-not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home. D Herbert

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. N Bonaparte

Palestinian terrorism still possesses a certain outmoded characteristic in that it revolves around murder,
around the indiscriminate annihilation of enemies, women, and children - life against life. J. Habermas