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War
«The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilization from the barbarians»
Author: Emmanuel Goldstein
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War
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apes, barbarians, conducted, framework, medieval, quaint, separates, The Barbarians
«The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
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History,
War
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eating away, establishment, Political history, stupidest, The Establishment
«The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.»
Author: Lester B. Pearson
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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War
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giants, grim, precocious, prepare for, pygmies, Pygmy, retard, retarded, retarding
«The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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Christianity,
War
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«The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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War
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beating, drums, persistent, reverberate, reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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War
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«The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.»