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Just War
«A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.»
Author: Alexander Cockburn
| Keywords:
abomination, certainty, deception, hospitable, Just War, self-deception, shelter, waging
«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| About:
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
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«If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.»
Author: Robin Williams
| Keywords:
days, intense, Just War, negotiation, negotiations, ran, wars, World War I
«In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
War
| Keywords:
first cause, intention, Just Cause, Just War, rightful, secondly, sovereign, sovereigns, The Authority, thirdly
«Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bid, defiance, for sure, involve, Just Cause, Just War, Long War, national, preserved, self respect, tranquillity
«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
in the long run, Just War, long run, Long War, prosperous, The Long, The Long Run