Quote by Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit

War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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When the rich wage war, its the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. – Eric Liu

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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. – Anatole Broyard

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