"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."
-George Orwell
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.“
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"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
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"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
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"Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
-John Ruskin
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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