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War Quotes by Edward Abbey
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
- As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
- The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and…
- The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
- Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no…
- War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
- War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
- There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
- Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the…
- The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov