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"It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on."
"It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare."
"Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose."
"History is the story of warfare between secret societies."
"If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare."
"This is not class warfare. It’s math."
"I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody."
"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
"The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore."
"Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in."
"I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood."
"Warfare cannot be humanized."
"Government is not a warfare of interests."
"The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive."
"Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within."
"In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare."
"According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit."
"The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living."
"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare."
"National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants."
