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War Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
- We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under…
- Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which…
- Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician…
- Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
- Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one…
- A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick…
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