Quote by Doris Lessing
My father was in the First World War. - Doris Lessing

My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing

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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing

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War
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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. – Margot Asquith

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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. – Proverb

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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. – George Wald

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War

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. – George Washington

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