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[Veterans] feel disappointed, not about the 1914-1918 war but about this war. They liked that war, it was a nice war, a real war a regular war, a commenced war and an ended war. It was a war, and veterans like a war to be a war. They do.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945).
Written in 1943, contrasting World War I with World War II, which was then in progress.)
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Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
(Harold MacMillan (1894-1986), British Conservative politician, prime minister. speech, Jan. 30, 1958, Canberra, Australia.)
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... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945).
Written in 1943.)
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
(Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese founder of the People's Republic of China. Lecture, May 1938. "On Protracted War," Selected Works, vol. 2 (1965).)
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
(Simone Weil (1909-1943), French philosopher, mystic. repr. In Selected Essays, ed. Richard Rees (1962). "The Power of Words," Nouveaux Cahiers (April 1 and 15, 1937).)
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
(Herodotus (c. 484-424 B.C.), Greek historian. The Histories, 8.3.)
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As a war in years of peace
Or in war an armistice
Or a father's death, just so
Our parting was not visualized....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "As a war in years of peace.")
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If it were not for the war,
This war
Would suit me down to the ground.
(Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), British author. "London Calling: Lord I Thank Thee.")
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
(H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946), British screenwriter, and William Cameron Menzies. John Cabal (Raymond Massey), Things to Come, responding to rumors of the impending war (1936).)
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The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
(Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930), U.S. author. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, ch. 2 (1919).
Remembering the aftermath of the Civil War. This remark comes from Felton's synopsis of an address she gave in 1900, in Augusta, Georgia, to the Daughters of the Confederacy.)
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