A Quote by Walker Percy
Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.
I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
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