Quote by Leo Tolstoy
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, espec

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. – Leo Tolstoy

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy

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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. – Julius Caesar

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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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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. – Mira Nair

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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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