“ Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ I know but little of the customs of war, and wish to know less. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. ”
- Gerald R. Ford- Copy
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“ It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. ”
- William Tecumseh Sherman- Copy
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“ America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ”
- David Brooks- Copy
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“ But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. ”
- Paulo Coelho- Copy
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“ Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary. ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars… ”
- Mao Zedong- Copy
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“ Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. ”
- Alain de Botton- Copy
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“ Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ A clash of doctrines is not a disaster — it is an opportunity. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. ”
- David Grayson- Copy
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“ The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it. ”
- Achmad Sukarno- Copy
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“ When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
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“ The dialogue of cultures can be stronger than the confrontation of the inhumanities disguised as a clash of civilizations. ”
- Emile Lahud- Copy
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“ Christians and Muslims who live together should try to meet and dialogue to refute the talk about a clash of civilizations. ”
- Dionigi Tettamanzi- Copy
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