War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/qgj3ivvu · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (3018 ratings) · submitted 1997
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
tiny.ag/ry32bjva · ★★☆☆ Fair (823 ratings) · submitted 1997
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rkg7iuvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
tiny.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
tiny.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
tiny.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
tiny.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
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/xm0eggq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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