Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars,
pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the
object: Abraham Lincoln
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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation
that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any
refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the
war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this
process of grotesque self-deception. Mark Twain, “The Mysterious Stranger”
(1910)
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“What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference
does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad
destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name
of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a
crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who
sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can
never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation
with evil is a sacred duty.” Gandhi
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