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War Quotes by David Mitchell
- Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
- If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
- War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
- War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
- What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the…
- Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
More War Quotes
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare