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War

«Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.»
«War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?»
Author: Gerhard Kocher | About: War | Keywords: Father of
«War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep»
«Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver (Activist, Writer) | About: Elections, War | Keywords: elections
«War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.»
Author: Andre Malraux (Historian, Novelist, Statesman) | About: Peace, War | Keywords: mysteriously
«Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.»
«War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus | About: gods, Men, Power, War
«War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung | About: War | Keywords: abolished, get rid of, gun, rid, rid of, take up
«Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace»
«Wars are caused by undefended wealth.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: War, Wealth | Keywords: undefended