Accursed be he that first invented war.
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
My father was in the First World War.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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.
War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
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