Quote by Thomas Carlyle
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their o

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle

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To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. – Michael Servetus

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War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe thats their gift. – Denzel Washington

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