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- People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to the Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer.
- Frederika Bremer
- A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
- Robert Cecil
- We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
- Author Unknown
- A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
- Arabic
- The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
- Author Unknown
- War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
- U Thant
- As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
- Fridjof Nansen
- War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
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