War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell
We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. – Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007
The Cold War isnt thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isnt sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. – Richard M. Nixon
Who has not hoped To outrage an enemys dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserves no better than to be destroyed By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski
I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther