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War Quotes by Simone Weil
- The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act…
- Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
- What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to…
- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
- A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
- What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
- If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at…
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