„I carried out my purpose: War and Peace, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and so forth. Would you believe it? Something is gained in translation; the originals are even more depressing and soporific than translations. I’m not sure what purpose Russian fiction has, but it can’t be entertainment.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.“
— William Faulkner
„Jungs! Opfert euch nicht! Der krieg ist doch scheiße, Hitler ist ein idiot! (message in a pro-allied propaganda broadcast) Translation: Boy! Do not sacrifice yourself! The war is but shit, Hitler is an idiot!“
— Marlene Dietrich
„Translation: When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„I have no doubt in the world that the sole object is the restoration of the Union. I will say further, though, that I am a Democrat--every man in my regiment is a Democrat--and whenever I shall be convinced that this war has for its object anything else that what I have mentioned or that the Government designs using its soldiers to execute the purposes of the abolitionists, I pledge you on my honor as a man and a soldier that I will not only resign my commission, but will carry my sword to the other side.“
— Ulysses S. Grant
„I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.“
— Cassandra Clare