Antiwar Quotes - Page 31

• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Army

  A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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• It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, People, Sticks

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.79, Macmillan

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