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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.»
«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.»
«In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur (General) | About: War | Keywords: eyelash, eyelashes, Just War
«If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.»
«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.»
«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»
«An unjust peace is better than a just war.»
«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»
«A just war is better than an unjust peace»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: Just War, unjust
«A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace»

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