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Quote by Aldous Huxley
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no per

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. – Aldous Huxley

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. – Aldous Huxley

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, whats more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. – Aldous Huxley

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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. – Herman Kahn

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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. – George McGovern

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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war. – George W. Bush

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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. – Wendell Willkie

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