“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
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“In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“In war there is no prize for runner-up.”
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”
“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”
“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”
“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
“The real war will never get in the books.”
“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”
“I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.”
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.”
“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
“I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.”
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
“I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.”