Quote by Gilbert Parker
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. - Gilbert Parker

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. – Gilbert Parker

Other quotes by Gilbert Parker

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. – Gilbert Parker

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Women
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work – or worry. – Gilbert Parker

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work
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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. – Harriet Tubman

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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France

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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time. – Hamid Karzai

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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. – Eugene ONeill

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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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