"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.“

-Aldous Huxley

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"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."

-Aldous Huxley

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."

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