It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.. Men of god and men of war have strange affinities. Cormac McCarthy
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A quote from the movie "The Right Stuff." The judge is a man who is a military judge at a war trial. He quotes a line from a poem by Wilfred Owen, a British World War I soldier who died in action during the war. The quote, "It makes no difference what men think of war," is from the poem "Dulce et Decorum est." In that poem, Owen says that anyone who has been in combat will know that war really is "the ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner," and that war is "a forcing of unity of existence."

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