"War is only a cowardly escape from the…" — Thomas Mann

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

— Thomas Mann

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105 Quotes by Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act…
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the…
Everything is politics.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the…
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense…

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More Anti War Quotes

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. — Alfred Adler
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. — Alfred Adler

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