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War and Peace
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Commenttiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Commenttiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/sxpzikiy · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/ypqqlw9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (672 ratings) · submitted 1998
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/yy2e1ad8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/zsldl2jb · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/idqkjfr5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (895 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/2kf4ndl1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is menstruation envy.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/b5lrmegw · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/vykjqus7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/s7ezrvqx · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/xmilhqgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/4exni0iq · ★★☆☆ Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
Draft beer, not people.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/6gqwgydb · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/konajjqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (675 ratings) · submitted (updated 10 Aug)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/xrdfngoo · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/abk7huzh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1236 ratings) · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
War Games (VHS (NTSC))Commenttiny.ag/hfj4loeb · ★★☆☆ Fair (825 ratings) · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
Commenttiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Commenttiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (968 ratings) · submitted 1999 ·
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
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