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Quotes about war
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War is like love, it always finds a way. (Cruise Tom)
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money. (Cruise Tom)
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. (Cruise Tom)
A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. (Cruise Tom)
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. (Cruise Tom)
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people. (Cruise Tom)
War is the trade of Kings. (Cruise Tom)
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble. (Cruise Tom)
America is addicted to wars of distraction. (Cruise Tom)
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. (Cruise Tom)
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. (Cruise Tom)
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. (Cruise Tom)
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. (Cruise Tom)
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Cruise Tom)
Every gun that is fired, 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. The 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. (Cruise Tom)
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. (Cruise Tom)
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. (Cruise Tom)
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?). (Cruise Tom)
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief. (Cruise Tom)
Morality is contraband in war. (Cruise Tom)
Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. (Cruise Tom)
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. (Cruise Tom)
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. (Cruise Tom)
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. (Cruise Tom)
War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself. (Cruise Tom)
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