War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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tiny.ag/la65dtiv · submitted 1998
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/konajjqe · submitted (updated 3 Mar)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/tldrjftc · submitted 1997
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/xrdfngoo · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hfj4loeb · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/qgj3ivvu · submitted 1997
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/sxpzikiy · submitted 1997
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/4vs8cciz · submitted 1997
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
tiny.ag/rh5oemag · submitted 1997
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · submitted 1999
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
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