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“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”
Robert Lynd quotes (Irish Essayist and Journalist, 1879-1949)

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“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.”
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“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.”

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“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering”
Robert Lynd quotes (Irish Essayist and Journalist, 1879-1949)
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“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”
Robert Lynd quotes (Irish Essayist and Journalist, 1879-1949)
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“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”
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“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“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”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)
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“War is like a big machine that no one really knows how to run and when it gets out of control it ends up destroying the things you thought you were fighting for, and a lot of other things you kinda forgot you had.”

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