„In war, where both success and failure are repaid by death, hostile agents who penetrate into the rear are subject to execution. This is inhuman, but no one ever considered war a school of humanity.“

— Leon Trotsky

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„People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything“
— Frida Kahlo
„A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„The struggle against war, properly understood and executed, presupposes the uncompromising hostility of the proletariat and its organizations, always and everywhere, toward its own and every other imperialist bourgeoisie…“
— Leon Trotsky