WAR QUOTES XVII

quotations about war


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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
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New Statesman, February 8, 1991


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One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

HOWARD ZINN

Howard Zinn on War


Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Campaign

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