„The people of Algiers marched through the streets of the city, in desperate protest against the new threat of civil war, shouting: ‘We want peace! We want a government!’ How are they to go about getting it? Through the years of civil war, they had been united, not by any political philosophy, but only by a racial issue. They were fighting, not for any program, but only against French rule. When they won their independence, they fell apart – into rival tribes and armed ‘willayas’ fighting one another“

— Ayn Rand

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„But we must be ready to face any temporary disaster - whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife — if only through such disaster can we attain our goal.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„The Great War through which we have passed differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. … Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and these were of doubtful utility.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„War is just another gameTailor made for the insaneBut make a threat of their annihilationAnd nobody wants to playIf that's the only thing that keeps the peaceThen thank God for the bomb“
— Ozzy Osbourne