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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
• Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
• The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
• Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
• War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
• In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
• I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
• When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
• A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
• Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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