"War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war."

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Source : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

Smedley Butler

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“My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.”
“There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.”

Source : "The Life-Long Sentence". Interview with with Tony Leuzzi, brooklynrail.org. July 15, 2014.
“Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.”
“All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.”
“The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.”

Source : Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)
“Britannia High is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.”
“By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .”

Source : Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)
“Donâ€™t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.”

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