Douglas MacArthur | war
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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Richard M. Nixon | war
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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George Santayana | war
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | war
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
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Alice Walker | war
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer | war
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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Pope Benedict XVI | war
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
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