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War Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering…
- Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
- The fear of war is worse than war itself.
- In war there is no prize for runner-up.
- Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
- Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
- What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either…
- War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and…
- Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
More War Quotes
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
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- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
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- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
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