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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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    Kristin Hannah
    “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    ― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
    tags: discovery, discovery-of-oneself, love, love-quotes, self-discovery, war
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: danger, righteousness, war
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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: mythology, war
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    Aristotle
    “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: peace, peacemaking, politics, war
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
    tags: humor, insanity, religion, war
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: war
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
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    Joseph Heller
    “It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
    ― joseph heller, Catch-22
    tags: death-and-dying, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: philosophy, thought-provoking, war
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    Robert Jordan
    “In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
    ― Robert Jordan, To the Blight
    tags: foolishness, war
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: law, rules, war
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    William Shakespeare
    “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: havoc, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: art-of-war, intimidation, peace, psychology, strategy, victory, war
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: children, forlorn, lost, old, soldiers, sorrow, war
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    Jess Rothenberg
    “War is sweet to those who have never fought.”
    ― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
    tags: war
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
    tags: humor, irish, song, war
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    R.F. Kuang
    “Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war
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    George R.R. Martin
    “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: beast, human-nature, savagery, war
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    George Orwell
    “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: anti-war, pacifism, war
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives."
    "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?"
    "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: death, killing, protection, war
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    Thucydides
    “For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."

    [Funeral Oration of Pericles]”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: bravery, courage, fame, freedom, irony, pericles, sarcasm, war
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    T.H. White
    “In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
    tags: age, war, youth
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