Accurst be he that first invented war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Accursed be he that first invented war.
Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
My father was in the First World War.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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