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War Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
- Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
- War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
- I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the…
- The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
- War among men defiles this world.
- When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of…
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