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To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.
