War & Peace

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

A man who shows admiration even amongst his enemies, and that every day dictates laws about the ways in which to govern people even through moments of great hardship.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

The real trouble with modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

I'm here in order to explain how much is hypocritical the world that gets fired up for a surgeon who replaces a heart with another, and then approves that thousands of young creatures, with the heart in order, are sent to die, like cows to the slaughterhouse, for the flag.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

Almost nothing like the war, and nothing like an unfair war, crushes the dignity of the man.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

One doesn't cry over one's past, one changes route.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

When the rich fight the rich, it is the poor who die.