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Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.

~ Suzy Kassem

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Americans Geography War

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

J.r.r. Tolkien Lotr War

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

~ Albert Dietrich

Albert Dietrich Martyrdom Misattributed To Albert Camus Pacifism Principles War

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

~ Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu Diplomacy Strategy Victory War

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Futility War

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway War

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Democracy Fascism Liberty Loss Politics Society Totalitarianism War

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

~ John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Conflict Politics War

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Misattributed Bernard Shaw Misattributed Bertrand Russell War

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

~ Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn Nationalism Patriotism War

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

~ Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll Dream Imagination Reality War

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

~ Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson Army Fighting Peace Soldiers War

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

~ Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu Business Strategy War

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

~ Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn Depression Honor Mental Suicide War

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

Neil Gaiman Danger Righteousness War

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson Ii

Adlai E. Stevenson Ii Horses Leadership War

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

~ Malcolm X

Malcolm X Armed Struggle Arms Pacifism Peace Revolution Violence War

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

J.r.r. Tolkien War

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy War

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre Class Struggle War

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Choice Freedom Peace War

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.Was Rorschach.Does that answer your Questions, Doctor?

~ Alan Moore

Alan Moore Atheism War

War is over ... If you want it.

~ John Lennon

John Lennon Beatles Fighting Peace War

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

~ Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu Deception Strategy Tactics War Warfare

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

~ Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor Accord Harmony Peace War

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. War

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Military Social Change War

Legion, cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood. ‘Greeks!’ Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged. Jason grinned. He loved the Greeks. They had no organization whatsoever, but they made up for it with enthusiasm.

~ Rick Riordan

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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque War Ww1

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Patriotism War

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .

~ Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu Preparation Security Strategy Tactics War

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

~ Howard Zinn

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In times of war, the law falls s

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Darrow Helldiver Leader Pierce Brown Red Rising War

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. War

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

~ Tim O'brien

Tim O'brien War

It is not enough to win a war, it is more important to organize the peace.

~ Aristotle

Aristotle Peace Peacemaking Politics War

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

~ Sun Tzu

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