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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through.""

Children War Feet
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind."

Men War Evil
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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!"

Men Believe War
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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""War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature."

War Military Peace
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War

"The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses."

War Drug Police
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending."

Long War Race
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public."

War Achievement Curves
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

Men War Japan
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks."

War Fire Gun
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same."

War Night Race
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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away."

War Home America
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Walker Evans Photographer
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"Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live."

War Stars Religious
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black."

War Religious Blood
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention."

War Names Peace
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