| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. | | John Stuart Mill | | | | | | | | | | | War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. | | Cardinal Richelieu | | | | | | | | What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. | | Unknown | | | | | When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt. | | Unknown | | | | | | | | | | | When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all. | | Unknown | | | | | Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have? | | Unknown | | | | | Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? | | W. H. Auden | | | | | You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. | | Al Capone | | | | | You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty. | | Henrik Ibsen | | | | | | Aphorisms: 61 - 74 of 74 | Pages: « 1 2 3 4 | | | |