Harry Patch famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.
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I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.
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War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.
-- Harry Patch
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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 great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.
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I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.
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Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.
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