Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War benefits the mediocre. The world is always more profitable for the talented.
Peace is just a dream of war.
Only a few, whose vile well-being depends on the people's grief, make wars.
Sending people to war untrained means betraying them.
If we get into a fight, we will ruin the next and future years. Who needs it? Whose hands are itching? If you're itchy, scratch somewhere else!
As long as war is seen as nude, it will always have a certain appeal. When they learn to see vulgarity in her, she will not attract anyone.
Many people go to war because they don't want to be heroes.
The war is only over when the last soldier is buried.
Phrases wise people about war
War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language.
Why are you killing me? - How for what? Friend, you live on the other side of the river! If you lived on this, I would indeed have committed a wrong, a crime, if I had killed you. But you live on the other side, which means my cause is just, and I accomplished a feat!
Prominent phrases of wise people about war
The peasant cultivates the fields, the worker enriches the cities, thinkers reflect, industry creates amazing things, genius creates miracles... and all this perishes on the terrifying international exhibition called the battlefield!
The war will be repeated until the issue of it is decided not by those who die on the battlefields.
A war cannot be fair, because you cannot fight fairly, even if you are fighting for justice.
Wars are like legal battles where the legal costs exceed the amount in dispute.
There is no need for war, no need. Let's work better, think, search. The only true glory is the glory of work. Warriors are the lot of barbarians.
War is a series of disasters leading to victory.
A glass of champagne lifts your mood, unleashes your imagination and sense of humor; however, a whole bottle makes you dizzy, your vision becomes dark, your legs give way. War works in much the same way. To really get a taste of both, it’s best to do a tasting.
War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others.
Just as peace is the end of war, so idleness is the end of employment.
Peace is the interval between two wars.
He could predict wars and; however, it was not difficult: they are always fighting somewhere and almost always starving somewhere.
Awesome phrases from wise people about war
Moderation in war is unforgivable stupidity.
If you want to win a war, you need to remember the old truth: the quieter you go, the further you will go.
They never lie so much as during the war, after the hunt and before the elections.
What a beautiful moon today! Yes, but if you had seen her before the war.
If the outcome of the war could be foreseen, all wars would cease.
The first panacea for a poorly governed country is currency inflation, the second is war; both bring temporary prosperity, both bring final destruction.
War is too serious a matter to be left to the military.
The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands.
Without war, no people are freed from any foreign yoke.
It is much easier to win a war than peace.
There is more valor in killing wars with words than killing people with iron.
Only the war that is undertaken for the highest and great principle, and not for material interest, not for greedy seizure, turns out to be useful.
War consists of unforeseen events.
War is war, and lunch must be on schedule.
Politics is as exciting as war. But more dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, in politics - many times.
Those who start a war themselves fall into their own networks.
Carefree phrases from wise people about war
For centuries, attempts have been made to fix the world with the help of explosives.
No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
I don't believe that Russia wants war. She wants the fruits of war.
No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest enemy hereditary - death.
Peace has no fewer victories than war, but much fewer monuments.
Why not try governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them them to beat, the war would die on that day.
Woe to him statesman who will not bother to find a basis for war that will still retain its significance even after the war.
When peoples fight among themselves, it is called war.
Anyone who has not lived through a single war will never know what a wonderful pre-war time he lived in.
Either humanity ends war, or war ends humanity.
War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature.
Money is the artery of war.
We are at war. We are fighting for peace. We fight hunger. We can't live without a fight. We fight, fight, fight: with weapons, words, money. But everything remains the same: the world is not getting better.
Peace is not the absence of war, but the virtue that comes from fortitude.
Good-natured phrases from wise people about war
In love, as in war, woe to the vanquished!
There is no greater crime than unnecessary war.
War turns people born to live into wild beasts.
Before the battle every plan is good, after the battle every plan is bad.
How is the world governed and how wars break out? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe their own lies when they read them in newspapers.
Even a victorious war is an evil that must be prevented by the wisdom of nations.
He who wages war on everyone is hardly at peace with himself.
Love is like war: easy to start, but very difficult to end.
The only state of people before the formation of society was war, and not only war in its ordinary form, but a war of all against all.
A victorious army rarely rebels.
In a peaceful environment, a warlike person attacks himself.
Anyone standing at state power obliged to avoid war in the same way as the captain of a ship avoids a wreck.
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
Quotes about war
Wars are cursed by mothers. Mothers hate wars. Horace
War is pleasant only to those who have not experienced it. Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Even cowards can start a war, but the brave must fight its dangers. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
War is first the hope that we will be well; then - the expectation that they will get worse; then - satisfaction that they are no better off than us; and finally - an unexpected discovery that it is bad for both us and them. Karl Kraus
We are deprived of leisure in order to have leisure, and we wage war in order to live in peace. Aristotle
Arranging someone else's fate is a dangerous game. It usually leads to consequences as unexpected as a major European war. George Bernard Shaw
When starting a war, people immediately begin actions that should have been postponed, and only after failures they turn to reasoning. Thucydides
War imposes tribute on both men and women equally, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others. William Makepeace Thackeray
While there is no war, you need to pacify your enemies with gifts, but if they take up arms against you, you cannot evade. Patience and humility are necessary for both peace and war. John of Damascus
Earthly life is war. We carry a heavy burden until time stops us. Abu-l-Ala Maari
War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts. Voltaire (Marie Francois Arouet)
The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands. Pierre Buast
Most quick way to end the war is to be defeated. George Orwell
In any war, everyone attributes success to themselves, and blame for misfortune is placed on one. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Very rarely is a war waged according to a predetermined plan, but more often the war itself chooses ways and means depending on the circumstances. Thucydides
War is the most unreasonable thing imaginable. Anyone who assists her with advice or deed should be considered a criminal towards humanity. August Einsiedel
Wars depend on glory, and often the lies that are believed become the truth. Quintus Curtius Rufus
Both will die - one because he lost the war, the other because he won it. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Only the war that is undertaken for an idea, for the highest and great principle, and not for material interest, not for greedy seizure, turns out to be useful. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
We find in human nature three main causes of war: first, rivalry; secondly, distrust, thirdly, a thirst for fame. Thomas Hobbes
In war, small circumstances often lead to big changes. Gaius Julius Caesar
War is the father of everything. She made some gods, others people, some slaves, others free. Heraclitus
The war is only over when the last soldier is buried. Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov
Even a victorious war is an evil that must be prevented by the wisdom of nations. Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck
No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death. Heinrich Heine
During the civil war, soldiers were allowed more than generals. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Every war is ruinous for the working man; Only the war that is fought to repel enemies from the borders of the fatherland is useful for him. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
The only state of people before the formation of society was war, and not only war in its ordinary form, but a war of all against all. Thomas Hobbes
Perhaps the man who loves war is the one who puts the lust for power above own safety, but a great warrior is one who gains security for himself through war. Plutarch
In disputes, like in war, weak side lights fires and makes a lot of noise so that the enemy thinks she is stronger than she actually is. Jonathan Swift
There is no safe time. In the midst of pleasure, the causes of pain arise; In times of peace, war begins. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)
Quotes, aphorisms and sayings about the War.
1170. War is the greatest disaster that can cause suffering to humanity; it destroys religion, states, families. Any disaster is preferable to her. M. Luther.
1171. War is the greatest sorrow, especially in modern conditions military equipment. L. Leonov.
1172. War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others. W. Thackeray.
1173. War for the people is tears and blood, it is widows and homeless people, it is a scattered nest, lost youth and insulted old age. I. Ehrenburg.
1174. War is not only a shock, but a spiritual test and spiritual judgment. I. Ilyin.
1175. War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature. V. Mayakovsky.
1176. War is the continuation of politics by other means. K. Clausewitz.
1177. War is murder. And no matter how many people come together to commit murder, and no matter what they call themselves, murder is still the worst sin in the world. L. Tolstoy.
1178. War is a cruel thing; it entails injustice and crime. Plutarch.
1179. War is a crime that cannot be atoned for by victory. A. France.
1180. War is the most absurd invention of mankind, which consumes most of the resources and effort. And yet we fight. A. Schopenhauer.
1181. War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language. A. Beers.
1182. War is a judgment on nations: victory and defeat are its sentence. A. Rivarol.
1183. War is the same punishment for the one who carries it out as for the one who suffers from it. T. Jefferson.
1184. War is a game in which sometimes the best people are defeated. M. Kemal.
1185. War is misfortune on an enlarged scale. I. Bentham.
1186. War is a luxury that only small nations can now afford. X. Arendt.
1187. War is too serious a matter to be trusted to generals. D. Kennedy.
1188. War is work. As a matter of fact, feats in war are born precisely in the midst of this labor. Feat is born among soldiers' labor, in the depths of this labor. K. Simonov.
1189. War is a denial of truth and humanity. It’s not just a matter of killing people, for a person must die one way or another, but the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people. D. Nehru.
1190. War and fighting are purely male inventions; A woman's weapon is her tongue. G. Gingold.
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1191. An army of rams led by a lion will always win over an army of lions led by a ram. Napoleon I.
For no other cause do men unite so quickly as to kill other men.
Susan Glaspell
The war would have been a picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery.
Margaret Mitchell
Everything is simple in war, but the simplest thing is highest degree difficult.
Carl Clausewitz
War consists of unforeseen events.
Napoleon I
Before the battle every plan is good, after the battle every plan is bad.
Vladislav Grzeszczyk
No plan survives an encounter with the enemy.
Helmuth von Moltke
War is a traumatic epidemic.
Nikolay Pirogov
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Clausewitz
The flourishing of military sciences is possible only in peacetime.
Don Aminado
War is just a cowardly escape from peacetime problems.
Thomas Mann
War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language.
Ambrose Bierce
We are told that war is murder. No: it's suicide.
Ramsay MacDonald
War is, for the most part, a catalog of blunders.
Winston Churchill
War is a series of disasters leading to victory.
Georges Clemenceau
In war there is no second prize for the losers.
Omar Bradley
There are no winners in war, only losers.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
If our soldiers understood why we are fighting, no war would be possible.
Frederick the Great
In a civil war, every victory is a defeat.
Lucan
Every war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
I do not know a single nation that has become rich as a result of victory.
Voltaire
If the outcome of the war could be foreseen, all wars would cease.
Karol Bunsch
How is the world governed and how wars break out? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe their own lies when they read them in newspapers.
Karl Kraus
Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
Herbert Hoover
It is not the military that starts the war. Politicians start war.
General William Westmoreland
Wars begin in the minds of people.
From the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO
The war is only over when the last soldier is buried.
Alexander Suvorov
The war does not end, it rests.
Urszula Kozel
A war cannot be fair, because you cannot fight fairly, even if you are fighting for justice.
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
There are just wars, but there are no just troops.
Andre Malraux
Only the victors decide what the war crimes were.
Gary Wills
No one really needs war, but many people need hatred.
Max Frisch
Either wars will go out of fashion, or people will.
Buckminster Faller
Either humanity ends war, or war ends humanity.
John Kennedy
Cold War: uneasy coexistence instead of easy non-existence.
Revised version by Judith Beach
The first casualty of war is truth.
Johnson Hiram
In wartime, truth is so precious that it must be guarded by guards of lies.
Winston Churchill
Ant: “It’s not me who fights. The anthill is at war.”
Karel Capek
Many people go to war only because they don’t want to be heroes.
Tom Stoppard
The worst thing, apart from a lost battle, is a won battle.
Duke of Wellington
If we lose this war, I will start another under my wife's name.
Moshe Dayan during Six Day War 1967
It is impossible to win a war, just as it is impossible to win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Hannah Arendt
Wars start when they want, but end when they can.
Niccolo Machiavelli
On the first day of war and the first day of peace, we still do not believe that this is true.
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The death of those who fell on the battlefield in their youth is felt the more painfully the longer their peers live.
Vladislav Grzegorczyk
For those who fought, the war never ends.
Curzio Malaparte
This war will end wars. And the next one too.
David Lloyd George
The Falklands War was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges
Wars are like legal battles where the legal costs exceed the amount in dispute.
Luc de Vauvenargues
Perpetual peace will reign if the winner is forced to pay all expenses.
Evan Esar
Someday they will declare war and no one will come.
Carl Sandburg
Any war is popular during the first thirty days.
Arthur Schlesinger
The goal of war is peace.
Aristotle
The fastest way to end a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
Prologue of the 20th century - gunpowder factory. Epilogue - Red Cross barracks.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
There will be no World War III veterans.
Walter Mondale
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In war, prudence and abundance win for the most part.
Pericles
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There are no winners in war - only losers.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
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There will be no World War III veterans.
Walter Mondale
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In peacetime, sons bury their fathers; in wartime, fathers bury their sons.
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At the present historical moment, the prospect of a more fulfilling life and less hardship has opened up for the first time to the broad working masses of all countries. Science stands ready to give millions and tens of millions of people an abundance such as they have never known... Are all these hopes, prospects, all these secrets, wrested from nature by the genius of man, destined to turn to his own destruction at the hands of tyranny, aggression and war? Or are they destined to bring even greater freedom and lasting peace? Never before has the choice between blessing and curse faced humanity in such a simple, obvious, and even crude form. The choice is open. The scales are shaking ominously.
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In a certain country, the sovereign and his advisers were obliged to sleep on a barrel of gunpowder during war. And, moreover, in separate chambers of the castle, where everyone could look to make sure whether the night light was always on there. The barrel was not only sealed with the seal of the people's representatives, but also secured to the floor with straps, also properly sealed. The seals were inspected every morning and evening. They say that since then the wars in this country have completely stopped.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The possibility of unleashing another war will persist until the last Ministry of Defense is eliminated.
S. Yankovsky
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A warrior must always remember - day and night, from the very day when he picks up his chopsticks, in anticipation of the New Year's meal, until the last night of the passing year, when he pays off his remaining debts - remember that he must die.
Yuzan Daidoji
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The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill by the thousands.
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The war will be repeated until the issue of it is decided not by those who die on the battlefields.
Henri Barbusse
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The war would have been a picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery.
Margaret Mitchell
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War is barbaric when a peaceful neighbor is attacked, but it is a sacred duty when defending the homeland.
Guy de Maupassant
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War is the greatest disaster that can cause suffering to humanity; it destroys religion, states, families. Any disaster is preferable to her.
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War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others.
William Thackeray
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War has always been a direct means for external and indirect means for internal unification of humanity. Reason forbids throwing away this weapon while it is needed, but conscience obliges us to try so that it ceases to be needed.
V. Soloviev
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War is just a cowardly escape from peacetime problems.
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War is a general forced surrender of blood and the spirit of hatred.
V. Kanivets
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A war, even the longest one, only aggravates the problems that caused it, and their solution remains temporary, coming after the conclusion of peace.
Ivo Andric
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War is such a crazy thing that poets rightly consider it the product of furies.
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War is a discussion with weapons in hand.
Yu. Rybnikov
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War for peoples means tears and blood, it means widows and homeless people, it means a scattered nest, lost youth and insulted old age...
I. Ehrenburg
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War is a test of all the economic and organizational forces of every nation.
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War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature.
V. Mayakovsky
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Clausewitz
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War is not only a shock, but also a spiritual test and spiritual judgment.
I. Ilyin
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A war ends only when it leaves no one alive.
Plato
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War is evil; it is carried out with the help of great injustices and violence, but for honest people there are some laws in war. You cannot pursue victory if the benefits it gives will be acquired through baseness and crime. Great commander must wage war, relying on his own courage, and not on betrayal of duty on the part of others.
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War is rooted in hostility, originates in family and neighborly feuds - those who are not given the opportunity to live and work from the heart do not like the work and peace of others.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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War, which has always been a crime against humanity, is now also madness.
John Desmond Bernal
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War can have good consequences among savages, helping to select the strongest and most resilient, but on civilized peoples its influence is usually the most pernicious: it leads to the mutual extermination of the best and bravest.
Alfred Foulier
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The war is so monstrous that over time, everyone who managed to survive it becomes heroes.
G. Alexandrov
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War brings death to millions in order to improve the lives of millionaires.
Leonid S. Sukhorukoe
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A war cannot be fair, because you cannot fight fairly, even if you are fighting for justice.
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
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War is not an adventure. War is a disease. Like typhus.
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War... I consider it disgusting, but even more disgusting to me are those who glorify it without participating in it.
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There will definitely be war. Always. It doesn't happen that she doesn't exist. Even if it seems that she is not there, she is still there. People at heart love to kill each other. And they kill while they have enough strength. Their strength is running out - they rest for a while. And then they continue to kill again. That's how it works. You can't trust anyone. And that will never change. And there's nothing you can do about it. If you don’t like it, all you can do is run away to another world.
Haruki Murakami
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War is the exercise of natural law, which the strongest uses to dominate the weakest.
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War feeds on money, war rejoices in blood - this is how it was before us.
Danilo Tuptalo
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War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts.
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War is, above all, a simple art, and it's all about execution.
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War is a crime against humanity, where there are perpetrators and customers of the crime.
K. Kushner
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War is always criminal. Always, at all times, there will be a place in it not only for heroism and self-sacrifice, but also for betrayal, meanness, and stabs in the back. Otherwise, you simply cannot fight. Otherwise, you lost in advance.
S. Lukyanenko
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War is too serious a matter to be left to the military.
Charles Maurice Talleyrand
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War with its misfortunes is better than peace with nothing to be seen but usurpation and injustice.
William Pitt Amherst
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War is a complete atrocity... in war, people who are innocent of each other exterminate each other, being forcibly put into a state of self-defense.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Jeannette Rankin
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The war, so glorified by everyone, is waged by parasites, pimps, thieves, murderers, stupid louts, unpaid debtors and similar scum of society, but by no means by enlightened philosophers.
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War is as much a punishment for those who carry it out as for those who suffer from it.
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War is better the more evil it causes.
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War is a wolf, and it can come to your door.
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War is a kind of action, thanks to which people who do not know each other kill for the sake of glory and profit of people who know each other and do not kill each other.
Paul Valéry
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War is the fruit of the weakness and stupidity of peoples.
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War is, for the most part, a catalog of blunders.
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War is a psychosis generated by someone’s inability to see the relationships between things. Our relationships with our neighbors. With economics, history. But above all - with nothing. With death.
John Fowles
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War is a series of disasters leading to victory.
Georges Clemenceau
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War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language.
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War is a traumatic epidemic.
N. Pirogov
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War is misfortune on an enlarged scale.
Jeremy Bentham
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War is an epidemic of deadly infection. The fallen strike their loved ones with the inescapable grief of loss, widowhood and orphanhood. The survivors are infected by the war with incurable diseases: cruelty, cynicism, contempt for the value of human life.
E. Sevrus
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War is a denial of truth and humanity. It’s not just a matter of killing people, for a person must die one way or another, but the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people.
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War is distinguished not by the fact that a person is killed, but by the fact that he is killed, robbed, suppressed by cruelty, injustice, betrayal, by the deadly hand of man.
William Ellery Channing
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There will be wars as long as at least one person can make money from them.
Bertolt Brecht
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Wars are always sacred to those who have to fight them. If those who incite wars did not declare them sacred, what fool would go to war? But no matter what slogans the orators shout, driving fools to the slaughter, no matter how noble the goals set for them, the cause of wars is always the same. Money. All wars, in essence, are fights over money. Only few people understand this. Everyone is too deafened by the fanfares, drums and speeches of the stands sitting in the rear.
Margaret Mitchell
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Wars and disasters take away different ways the best, the most noble, the bravest, the kindest, the most honest, it is they who sacrifice their lives and everything that is included in this concept - their property, spiritual or material. For the honest go to the front and live by death, when everything is rejected or taken away. Then they are calm.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Wars start when they want, but end when they can.
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Wars begin in the minds of people.
From the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO
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War cannot be avoided, it can only be postponed to the benefit of your enemy.
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Wars are like legal battles where the legal costs exceed the amount in dispute.
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An army of rams led by a lion will always win over an army of lions led by a ram.
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All people are guilty before the mother who lost her son in the war, and have tried in vain to justify themselves to her throughout the history of mankind.
V. Grossman
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All mistakes in other areas can be corrected somehow, but mistakes in war are irreparable, because they are punished immediately.
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The whole world needs to go against every war!
Leonid S. Sukhorukoe
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Every war is an abyss, because behind it there is always an abyss.
Leonid S. Sukhorukoe
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All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai
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Anyone in government power is obliged to avoid war, just as the captain of a ship avoids shipwreck.
Guy de Maupassant
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Any uprising against foreign invaders is a legitimate matter and is the first duty of every people.
Stendhal
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In the course of every arms race, there eventually comes a psychological moment when war seems to be the only means of liberation from the unbearable expectation of catastrophe.
A. Kerensky
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It is just as impossible to win a war as it is impossible to win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
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Generals are always preparing for the last war.
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It is much easier to win a war than peace.
Georges Clemenceau
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Woe to the statesman who does not take the trouble to find a basis for war that will still retain its significance even after the war.
Otto von Bismarck
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Even the happiest wars do not lead to peace.
Paul Henri Holbach
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Two riders, sitting on the same horse, fight with each other - a wonderful allegory of government!
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Money is the nerve of war.
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For most people, war means the end of loneliness. For me she is the ultimate loneliness.
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As long as a foreigner rules on at least one piece of Ukrainian territory, Ukrainians will go to war.
N. Mikhnovsky
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If our soldiers understood why we are fighting, no war would be possible.
Frederick the Great
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If war is a game for politicians, then voters are the chips in it.
Leonid S. Sukhorukoe
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If we lose this war, I will start another under my wife's name.
Moshe Dayan
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There are just wars, but there are no just troops.
Andre Maltz
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Not a single war has ever begun without hysterical cries for peace.
S. Yankovsky
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Sometimes one ruler attacks another out of fear that he will not attack him. Sometimes we start a war because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak, sometimes our neighbors want what we have, or have what we lack. Then the war begins and continues until they capture what they need or give what we need.
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The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds except what has been calculated and thought out.
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History proves, unfortunately, that war is in some sense the normal condition of mankind; that human blood must be shed everywhere on earth and that peace for any nation is only a respite.
Joseph de Maistre
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No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death.
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As soon as people unite in society, they lose consciousness of their weakness - equality disappears, and war begins. Each individual society begins to realize its strength - hence the state of war between nations... Individuals in each society begin to feel their strength - hence the war between citizens.
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
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How is the world governed and how wars break out? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe their own lies when they read them in newspapers.
Karl Kraus
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When peoples fight among themselves, it is called war.
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When arrogance comes to states and peoples, then war comes on its heels.
Valery Babriy
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Anyone who has not been to the war has no right to talk about it.
Marlene Dietrich
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Whoever wants to live in peace must prepare for war.
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The fist law of our ancestors was far from such a terrible thing as the idle mind strives to imagine: without examining the matter, he takes the word of his predecessor and copies from him... In their opinion, the war was God's judgment or the highest decision for opponents who did not want to obey to no other judge... And it seemed to them more reasonable, fair and Christian for individual knights to seek God’s verdict with a sword or spear, rather than for a hundred thousand people to pray to the Creator to take the side of the one who will kill the greatest number of enemies.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Either humanity ends war, or war ends humanity.
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Only those whose vile well-being depends on the people's grief make wars.
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The best wars in human history are those that humanity managed to avoid.
Baurzhan Toyshibekov
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People all wanted to understand where the war was and what was vile about it... It was in the terrible loneliness of those who fight and those who remain in the rear, in the shameful despair that gripped everyone, and in the moral decline that appears on their faces over time. The kingdom of beasts has arrived.
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People think that if they call the crime of murder “war,” then murder will cease to be murder, a crime.
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Many of the world's disasters have resulted from wars. And then, when the war ended, no one, in essence, could really explain what it all was about.
Margaret Mitchell
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Many people go to war only because they don’t want to be heroes.
Tom Stoppard
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Ant: “It’s not me who fights. The anthill is at war.”
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We are deprived of leisure in order to have leisure, and we wage war in order to live in peace.
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We find in human nature three main causes of war: first, rivalry; secondly, mistrust; thirdly, a thirst for fame.
Thomas Hobbes
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In war everything is simple, but the simplest things are extremely difficult.
Carl von Clausewitz
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In war, everyone is equal in the likelihood of death.
G. Alexandrov
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible - this is the cynical logic of war.
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People exist only during war. In peacetime, this is a crowd of consumers.
R. Koval
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It is just as useful for a people to fear war as it is for an individual to fear death.
Jules Renard
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Violence is the essence of war. Moderation in war is unforgivable stupidity.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The day will come when science will give birth to a machine or force so terrible, so infinitely terrifying, that even man - a warlike creature who brings down torment and death on others at the risk of suffering torment and death himself - will tremble with fear and forever renounce war.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Preventing war is more difficult than winning a war.
K. Kushner
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It is not true that war is a continuation of politics. She is her appendage, pathetic and helpless.
S. Lukyanenko
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The injustice inherent in the first people is where the origins of war and the need to place bosses over themselves who would determine the rights of everyone and resolve all disputes.
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There is no great merit in taking a person's life. War is a vile business.
Nora Roberts
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There is no vileness that war would not allow, there is no crime that would not be justified by it.
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Never fight one enemy for too long, otherwise he will adapt to your tactics.
Carl von Clausewitz
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No one fights in war with such zeal as in the war for his native country.
Demosthenes
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The same can be said about war as about a big game, which is preferred to a small game, even at the risk of going broke, because big game awakens in us the hope of getting rich and promises to do this in an instant.
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The difference between war and Olympic Games is that in war medals are most often awarded posthumously.
B. Krieger
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Before the Battle of Thermopylae: “Have a heartier breakfast, Spartans, today we will have dinner in the next world.”
Tsar Leonidas
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Just as the greatest physical evil is death, so the greatest moral evil is, of course, war.
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As long as war is considered immoral, it will always have fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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A political leader who does not hesitate to plunge his people into war has no right to be a leader.
Golda Meir
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After the massacre - victory; after victory - division; and then there are more winners than there were combatants. This is the custom of any war.
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After wars, as a rule, there is a surge of energy - among the victors because they won, among the vanquished - because they survived.
Peter Esterhazy
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Sending people to war untrained means betraying them.
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Why not try governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them them to beat, the war would die on that day.
Guy de Maupassant
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Before fighting distant, abstract injustice, it is necessary to fight injustice that is happening nearby - that which surrounds us and for which we are more or less responsible.
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Acceptance of war is acceptance of the tragic horror of life. And if in war there is brutality and loss of humanity, then there is also great love, refracted in the darkness.
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The nature of war, as material violence, is purely reflective, symbolic, symptomatic, not independent. War is not a source of evil, but only a reflex to evil, a sign of the existence of internal evil and illness.
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Prologue of the 20th century - gunpowder factory. Epilogue - Red Cross barracks.
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Away with the singing of wars - they do not bring any benefit to the soul.
Xenophanes
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A cannon is a mechanism used to clarify state borders.
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The outbreak of a world war is not The best way fix the economy. We are not trying to remove garbage from the house by burning the house.
B. Krieger
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The average person wants neither war nor robbery - these are attributes of the unfit elements of humanity, an expression of their never-quenchable greed and thirst to profit at the expense of others.
Martin Andersen Nexo
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The most terrifying dangers that threaten humanity now and will continue to threaten for centuries to come are the great suicidal war and absolute worldwide tyranny.
D. Andreev
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The fastest way to end a war is to be defeated.
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Today it is more difficult to officially sentence one single person to death at the stake than to start a world war.
Elias Canetti
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Among all the causes of war, the desire to overthrow tyranny, under the yoke of which an exhausted and exhausted people suffers, deserves the greatest approval.
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Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
Herbert Hoover
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As soon as good, honest, selfless people unite and start a war in the name of a good cause, soon the worst of the villains inevitably turns out to be their commander in chief. This is such a thing - war, don’t expect anything good from it.
B. Akunin
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It is strange to imagine that war, the wildest thing there is, was the passion of heroic souls. However, in war, people mutually support each other and find themselves faced with common dangers; here mutual affection is stronger.
Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
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There are only two types of just wars: when people fight to repel an enemy, or when they go to the aid of an ally in danger.
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
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It was so before, and it will be so after you - a real war is terrible, and only during it do you understand how monstrous it is.
K G. Tsemelinin
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So called ruling classes cannot remain without war for long. Without war they are bored, idleness tires them, irritates them, they don’t know what they live for, they eat each other, try to say more troubles to each other, with impunity if possible, and the best of them try their best not to bore each other and themselves . But war comes, takes possession of everyone, captures them, and a common misfortune binds everyone.
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This was and is now the only reason for wars: the power, honors, and wealth of a small number of people to the detriment of the masses, whose natural gullibility and the prejudices caused and supported by this minority make wars possible.
Gaston Moch
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Patience and humility are necessary for both peace and war.
John of Damascus
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Anyone who has not lived through a single war will never know what a wonderful pre-war time he lived in.
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The tragedy of war is that all the best in a person is used to commit the worst crimes.
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War has the look of Medusa the Gorgon - whoever once looked into her face is no longer able to look away.
D. Aslamova
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The most surprising thing is that the very word “war” does not cause an uprising of the entire society as a whole.
Guy de Maupassant
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Each misconception has its own school, its own audience. But none has been heaped with so much rubbish as the concept of war.
Theodor Gottlieb Hippel
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If you want peace, prepare for war.
Flavius Renatus Vegetius
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To wage a war you need three things: money, money and more money.
Louis XII
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What kind of madness is this war? A futile action, which, with the passage of time, completely loses all meaning and must be fueled by reckless rage, which lives much longer than the incident that gave rise to it; the action is completely illogical, as if one person, through his death or his suffering, can prove some rights or establish some principles. Somewhere along its long historical path, humanity stumbled, elevated this madness to the norm and existed like this until the present time, when madness, which has become the norm, threatens to destroy, if not the human race itself, then at least all those material and spiritual values , which have been symbols of humanity for many difficult centuries.
Clifford Simak
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As for war, which is the art of destroying and killing each other, destroying and tormenting our own race, then those animals that do not know it should not, it seems, especially regret it.
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Feelings of justice, decency, fidelity, based on the recognition of equality of rights, lose their force in civil wars when each side looks at the other as a criminal and arrogates to itself the right to judge him.
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You can do anything with bayonets; You just can’t sit on them.
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This war will end wars. And the next one too.
David Lloyd George
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I don’t know with what weapons they will fight in the 3rd World War, but in the 4th World War they will fight with sticks and stones.
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Wise Quotesabout war, about memory
Tell me what makes you so sad?
The whole world.
Ernest Hemingway
I firmly believe that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war, that nations will come together not to destroy but to create, and that the future belongs to those who will do more for suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur
“Those who lie about the past war are bringing the future war closer. There was nothing dirtier, harsher, bloodier, more naturalistic than the last war in the world. It is necessary not to show a heroic war, but to scare, because war is disgusting. We must constantly remind people about it so that they don’t forget. With your nose, like blind kittens, poke into the shitty place, into the blood, into the pus, into the tears, otherwise you won’t get anything from our brother. 
How many people lost in the war? You know and remember. It's scary to name the true number, isn't it? If you call it, then instead of a ceremonial cap, you need to put on a schema, kneel on Victory Day in the middle of Russia and ask your people for forgiveness for a mediocre war, in which the enemy was buried with corpses, drowned in Russian blood.”
THIS MASSACRE CANNOT BE CALLED A GREAT WAR...
“If we talk about the attitude towards this war, well, what can I say, I was a very Soviet young man, I voluntarily went to the front, fought against fascism, remained alive, returned, reviewed a lot, suddenly realized that if we drop the word “fascism”, then these were two identical systems that were in a competitive dispute with each other. Two totalitarian systems.
Well, there was a purely external difference, of course. There was a swastika, and here there was a hammer and sickle. There was a possessed Fuhrer, and here there was a brilliant leader of all nations. There they openly hated Jews, but here they shouted about their love for Jews and quietly destroyed them. This was the difference. But in principle, two identical systems collided. I began to understand this, of course, after the war, much later. Therefore, I believe that this massacre cannot be called a great war, it is indecent. The carnage is never great."
Bulat Okudzhava
How meaningless is everything that is written, done and thought about by people, if such things are possible in the world! 
Something in ourselves prevents us from seeing the full picture of the world!
To what extent is our thousand-year-old civilization deceitful and worthless if it could not even prevent these flows of blood, if it allowed hundreds of thousands of such dungeons to exist in the world. 
Only in the infirmary do you see with your own eyes what war is.
EM. Remarque, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
I want to live without wars. I want to know that overnight, somehow, guns all over the world turned to rust, that bacteria in bomb casings became harmless, that tanks fell through highways and, like prehistoric monsters, lie in pits filled with asphalt.
This is my wish.
Ray Bradbury, "Rust"
CONVERSATION WITH YOUR GRANDSON.
I called my grandson from the yard to the open window.
-What are you playing?
- In the submarine war. 
- To the war? Why do you need war?
- Listen, commander:
The peoples do not need war. Play better in the world.
He left after listening to the advice. Then he came again
And he quietly asks: “Grandfather, how can we play in the world?”
Catching the news that he broadcast in the morning,
I thought: it's time to stop playing with war,
So that children can learn to play in the world!
Could there be anything more absurd than the fact that such and such a person has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the river or the sea and because his government is in a quarrel with mine, although I have no quarrel with him. 
And the world passes away, and its desires, but he who does the will of God will live forever.
John the Theologian
Have soft heart V modern world- this is courage, not weakness.
Michel Mercier
War is murder. And no matter how many people come together to commit murder, and no matter what they call themselves, murder is still the worst sin in the world. 
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The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands. 
War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts.
Voltaire
They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not raise sword against nation, and they will no longer learn to fight. Isaiah
Writing on the wall at the UN building in New York 
Over the 6 thousand years of the existence of civilization, more than 15 thousand wars took place in different parts of our planet, the direct losses in which probably amount to about 3.5 billion people. Throughout its history, humanity has lived in peace for only 300 years.
During the period from 1945 to the present day, guns on Earth were silent for only 26 days.
One of the American astronauts said: each of us flies into space as a patriot of our country, and arrives as a patriot of the Earth. Of our planet. And there's no better way to say it. 
Looking at the Earth from above, you feel our planet as a single, living being. Who suffers from fires, destruction, earthquakes. War. And you understand that humanity must unite for the sake of the future. Sooner or later. Better earlier.
It was and remains an honor for me to refuse military service. I have discovered that the real enemy is not the one you point the gun at, but those who stand behind and above you and require you to pull the trigger. 
War is not an adventure. War is a disease. Like typhus. 
Man rules over man to his detriment
Solomon
War is a way for rich people to protect their interests by sending the children of the middle and poor classes to their deaths. 
Peace is more than the absence of war.
Peace is unity and harmony. This is harmony. 
Do you know that over the past 3,500 years, the civilized world has lived without war for only 230 years?
He said:
- Tell me these 230 years, then I will believe you.
- I can’t name it, but I know it’s true.
- And what kind of civilized world are you talking about!
Jonathan Safran Foer
War is the most terrible thing. People of some beliefs fight for their beliefs with people of other beliefs. 
To be created to create, to love and to conquer is to be created to live in the world. But war teaches us to lose everything and become something we were not. 
Real victories are victories of peace, not war. 
Only in a world free from war will it be possible, for the first time in human history, to make full use of the knowledge and labor of people to satisfy their needs. 
War is a political cancer that corrodes the body of the most powerful states. 
How worse person thinks about the world around him, the worse this world becomes for him. 
The war has eaten away at my soul.
For someone else's interest
I shot a body close to me
And he climbed onto his brother with his chest.
Sergei Yesenin “Anna Snegina”
There are people who consider it fair to destroy those undesirable,
to make the world a better place... their world... 
All war propaganda, all the screams, lies and hatred always come from people who will not go to this war. 
Cruel century. Peace is conquered by guns and bombers, humanity by concentration camps and pogroms. We live in times when everything has turned upside down... Aggressors are now considered defenders of peace, and those who are persecuted and persecuted are enemies of peace. And there are entire nations who believe this! 
The world continues to waste trillions on useless military spending. How is it that it is easier to find money to destroy people and the planet than to protect them? 
We live in strange times; the war has moved to a new space. The battlefield has become the media, and in this new conflict it is difficult to separate Good from Evil. 
It is difficult to understand who is good and who is evil: as soon as you switch to another channel, the opponents change places. Television brings envy into the world. 
The enemy is not Ukraine, not Russia, not the USA and not the European Union. The enemy is lack of love. 
To teach people to love justice, it is necessary to show them the results of injustice. 
A brilliant invention in the form of military awards. This ancient trick allows any government to make a very profitable exchange. A person gives up his hearing, vision, years and limbs to the regime, and in return receives... a shiny plaque. As a rule, the victim of such fraud is very happy that he was fooled and is proud of the symbol of his stupidity. 
The progress of civilization cannot be denied - in every new war we are killed in a new way.
Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
(Herbert Hoover)
The most dangerous type of mass epidemic is not the plague or cholera, but psychosis, covering entire segments of the population. Remember the Danish Crusade. Or a medieval witch hunt. What is war if not mental illness, affecting entire countries, or even continents?
Boris Akunin
Sayings and aphorisms about the world and life
The whole huge world around me, above me and below me is full of unknown secrets. And I will discover them all my life, because this is the most interesting, most exciting activity in the world.
Vitaly Bianchi
AND the world a person is illuminated by his own, inner Light. The world around us is the way we make it. Man is a kind of lantern. His inner Light, his love and true kindness is the force that illuminates the world around him. And around each of us there is always exactly as much Light as we gave it.
Angel de Coitiers
The main thing I would like to be sure of is that in our world, above talent, above energy, concentration, determination and everything else, there is kindness. The more kindness and cheerfulness in the world, the better this world is always.
Stephen Fry
“Put your sword back in its place, because everyone who takes the sword will die by the sword.”
Jesus Christ
Light is in man. And the world around a person is illuminated by his own, inner Light. The world around us is the way we make it. Man is a kind of lantern. His inner Light, his love and true kindness is the force that illuminates the world around him. And around each of us there is always exactly as much Light as we gave it. The more you open up, the brighter everything around you becomes.
Angel de Coitiers
Every morning when we wake up, we have twenty-four completely new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the potential to live this day in such a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy and happiness to ourselves and others.
I am here on this planet. And at this moment I look at the delightful stars, which with their twinkling want to tell us so much. I look at this beautiful night, which knows so many of our secrets. And if you look closely, you can see how miracles begin to make their way into every home and in the morning they will become part of the lives of those who believe in them. And I see how the flowers enjoy their short moments. Oh, God, how beautiful you have made life for them!.. Oh, how beautiful this night is... So much so that you want to shout “thank you” and let these echoes touch all the worlds!
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I will say this, amigo - build your house, give birth to your son, water your tree...
And you will be happy. And a good name. And there will be no war.
The world looks amazing in the eyes of amazing people.
Know how to take the position of another person and understand what he needs, not you. The whole world will be with the one who can do this. 
People were created to be loved, and things were created to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the other way around.
We live in an incredible, fantastic world, but we don’t notice it.
And no matter what language you write, no matter what you have done in your life as an artist and as a person, they can take your body, like some thing, and dispose of it as you please.
Emir Kusturica
You change yourself, and it changes with you. external world– there are no other changes.
Kobo Abe
Don't rely too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
Oh, if you were attentive to my commandments! Then your peace would become like a river and your righteousness like sea waves. Your descendants would become as numerous as sand, and the descendants descended from you would be as numerous as grains of sand.
Isaiah
A person notices in the world only what he already carries within himself.
Nothing lasts forever in our sinful world, not even our troubles. 
All this hatred in our world is terrible. Forget about nations, forget about colors, forget about different religions. We are all humans. The only thing that makes one of us better than another is good deeds.
A person must develop an aversion to all military actions and realize that all people are brothers and should live in peace and unity, working for the common good and prosperity. 
Happy are those who live, those who truly live, who carry within themselves a grain of hope from which a whole world will grow - a world of hope, new world, which will be better than before.
Home is not objects worth several thousand dollars and not the delights of modern designers, but cozy little things, the voices of children, the smell of home-cooked food, toys scattered on the floor, bookshelf and just a feeling of your own cozy little world...
They tell me that with my statements I want to turn the world upside down. But would it be bad to turn an upside-down world upside down? 
The modern world relieves people of the need to think. Our eyes are replaced by education, our thoughts are replaced by rules, our own opinions are replaced by stereotypes, our desires are replaced by commercials. Everything has already been invented, recorded, put in its place... Don’t think, but listen, look and remember. You've already been taken care of. Wash your hair with this shampoo, sleep on these beds, wear these jeans. Yes, of course, you have the right to choose, but what is it for? While you choose, reflect, analyze, time will pass. So don’t bother your head with all this nonsense. Live comfortably, let your every day be a holiday of limitless consumption. 
It has been noticed: what color are the words we pronounce, the same color is the world around us...
Sincerity is always attractive. Whenever we meet it in someone, it captivates our heart. It’s only a pity that in our world it resides more in children. In adult society, sincerity is rare. However, like everything real, genuine.
The world is big enough to satisfy the needs of any person, but too small to satisfy human greed. 
In no dark or tragic moments of life should we forget the most important thing: the joy that you are still alive, that you can help someone, through yourself bringing a person an atmosphere of peace and protection. Only a joyful person sees clearly and can act to the fullest extent of things.
Peace is the highest good that people desire in this world.
Miguel Cervantes
He who has contemplated the greatness of nature himself strives for perfection and harmony. Our inner world should be like this example. In a clean atmosphere everything is clean.
Honore de Balzac
If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
Happy is he who can see the beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing! Everything is fine, you just need to be able to look closely.
Camille Pissarro
The world always looks a little brighter when we do things for each other rather than ourselves.
Charles de Lint
If peace is not established between the great so-called civilizations and nations, then it can be assumed without exaggeration that everyone will suffer the same fate and every country participating in the war will sink into eternity... 
When you want to break out of the system,
Then you will understand how many chains there are in it:
Built stereotype walls,
Puppets are made from people.
Success at any cost is the “meaning of life”
Love has become a trademark.
Getting sick, giving birth, and even walking is dangerous:
Blood is shed every day for money. 
What to do? Clubs, sex, partying and shopping -
Culture gives us such outlets.
It’s bright outside, but it’s dark inside.
This is how the people of Earth live now.
But there are still people in this world,
who are able to support
They live according to their conscience and believe: there will be sunshine!
And they strive to revive morality.
They broke the strings of the system
And they learn to love this whole world,
Help each other with advice and deeds
And live amicably, harmoniously, honestly!
Elena Smolitskaya
I am in despair because people in this world lack compassion, love, and common sense. Because someone can easily talk about the possibility of resetting nuclear bomb, not to mention giving the order to reset it. Because there are only a handful of us who care. Because there is so much cruelty, suspicion and anger in the world. Because big money can turn an absolutely normal young man into an evil and cruel criminal.
John Fowles
Nowhere in the world will we find a country foreign to us; from everywhere you can equally raise your eyes to the sky. 
He who has achieved inner peace and tranquility finds peace and tranquility everywhere.
In a world where there is a lot of anxiety and doubt
Only the one who knows how to love is happy.
You can live without clothes and money,
but it is impossible to live without love!
I believe in man, I believe in humanity. This is the worst and best thing that happened to this world. 
ONLY LOVE INSPIRES YOU TO LIVE
The world is full good people. If you cannot find one around you, then be one yourself.
If you want to live in a clean and beautiful world, then start with yourself.
In this world, tired of falsehood, only love inspires, to live, fill yourself with love, and then try not to kill it...
You will not find anything in the world around you that is not in your soul. How more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in people and in the world around you...
Stay calm. With calmness comes awareness and peace. With peace comes joy. Happiness will come with joy.
The main thing that life teaches a person is not that there is suffering in the world, but that it depends on him whether he will turn suffering to his benefit, whether he will turn it into joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
The best idea in the world won't do you any good if you don't act on it. People who want milk should not sit on a chair in the middle of a field, hoping that the cow will come back to them. 
If you don't value yourself highly, the world won't offer you a penny more.
Sonya Henie
Doing good is like breathing air,
A need given to people by God.
Warm the world with the rays of the heart,
And to give, and not to consider that you have given a lot...
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Change the world with your smile, but don't let the world change your smile! 
You feel like if you don't see something, it doesn't exist. No, you just don’t notice in the world what is not inside you. Evil person doesn't see good. To the greedy, everyone seems greedy; To a lover, the world seems filled with love, and to a hater, it seems filled with hatred. The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you.
It’s stupid to hope to do something global, for example, to establish peace in the whole world, to create happiness for everyone, but everyone can do some small thing that will make the world at least a little better... 
Remember that even though it is raining in the outside world, if you continue to smile, the sun will show its face and smile back at you.
Anna Lee
The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you...
A person with a pure heart sees purity in everything. After all, the outside world is only a reflection of your heart. If you fill it with love, you will feel love everywhere... 
Living in the world without trying to understand its meaning is like walking around a huge library and not touching the books.
They claim that the further the world goes, the more it becomes united, united in fraternal communication, by shortening distances and transmitting thoughts through the air.
Alas, do not believe in such unity of people.
Understanding freedom as the increase and quick satisfaction of needs, they distort their nature, because they give rise to many meaningless and stupid desires, habits and the most absurd inventions. They live only for envy of each other, for carnality and arrogance.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1880
In this world, what makes us rich is not what we get, but what we give. 
The more I observe the world, the less I like it. Every day confirms to me the imperfection of human nature and the impossibility of relying on apparent decency and common sense.
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"
Avoid evil and do good, seek peace and strive for it. 
We humans cannot on our own to do something global, for example, to establish peace in the whole world, to create happiness for everyone, but everyone can do some small thing, thanks to which the world will become at least a little better.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I want to see a more perfect world, a world of love and friendliness, and this alone can make my day beautiful and worthy of being. 
Everyone in the world is looking for happiness. There is a sure way to find it - control your thoughts. Happiness does not depend on external circumstances, but on internal state. It doesn't depend on where you are or what you do, but what you think about it.
There is no more beautiful feeling in the world than the feeling that you have done at least a drop of good to people.
L. N. Tolstoy
If you want the world to change, become that change yourself. 
There are too many people in the world who have not been helped to awaken.
Antoine de Saint-Expury
I want to continue to live in a world where loyalty still exists, and vows of love are made forever... 
Peace to the one who is not afraid of a dazzling dream,
For him delight lies hidden, for him flowers bloom!
K. Balmont
God has always sought to unite humanity, and humanity has always sought to separate 
Peace is the highest good that people desire in this life.