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- Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. 
 - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
 
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. 
 - George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
 
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. 
 - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1
 
- Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. 
 - Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"
 
- War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. 
 - George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
 
- All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. 
 - John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), "Once There Was A War"  1943
 
- Money is the sinew of love as well as war. 
 - Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
 
- Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. 
 - Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
 
- He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. 
 - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
 
- Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. 
 - Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
 
 
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