Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.
War is what happens when language fails.
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Margaret Atwood
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Ernest Hemingway
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Leo Tolstoy
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Anonymous
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Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
