Preventive war Quote by Bertrand Russell

““I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.””

Bertrand Russell

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I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

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A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities…

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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

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The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble;…

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