"Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous."
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"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."
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"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."
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"The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war."
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"You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations."
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"An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow."
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"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace."
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"JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular."
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"In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together."
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"In war, men are nothing, one man is everything."
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"The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war."
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"In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one."
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"It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."
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"What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin"
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"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."
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"It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement."
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"You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power."
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"Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents."
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"Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance."
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"The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
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