"I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler."
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"War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press"
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"We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends."
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"Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare."
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"If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen."
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"Peace is more difficult than war."
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"There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions."
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"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages."
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"It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice."
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"To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict."
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"If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose."
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"I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years."
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"In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell."
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"Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?"
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"To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague."
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"War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet."
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"We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds."
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"Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised."
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"The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s."
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"O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again."
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