Quote by Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not bett

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis

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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4

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Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. – Henry A. Wallace

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I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now its all in the uniform. Once youre in it, it usually does all the work for you. – Ryan Gosling

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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? – Oriana Fallaci

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