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What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.the source of this quotation notes: On 25th January 1918, Martin Niem
Martin Niem, From Uboat to Pulpi
After every war someone has to tidy up.
Wislawa Szymborska
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
Haruki Murakami
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Lewis Mumford
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
Barack Obama
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.
Gen. George Pickett, Gettysburg,
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone Weil
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
L. Neil Smith
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
Germaine Greer
Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
Ron Wyden
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
Michael Moore
For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John Milton
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson
At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.
Bernard Cooper
