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Quotations by Subject: War (33 quotes)

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.: Lord William Beveridge (1879 - 1963)
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.: William Congreve (1670 - 1729)
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The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
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It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

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