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War - Philosophy I
"Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature." Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Though this man and me hath all this war been wrought, and death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain." Sir Thomas Malory (d.1471) "All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain." John Donne (1571-1631) "Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters of Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man as divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin - I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin." Walt Whitman (1819-1892) "The blood red blossom of war with a heart of fire." Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) "The U.S. has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself." Field-Marshal Montgomery (1887-1976) "Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive." Graham Greene (1904 - ?) "The first casualty when war comes is truth." Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) "Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, Pibroch of Donuil, Wake thy wild voice anew, Summon Clan-Conuil. Come away, come away, Hark to the summons! Come in your war array, Gentles and commons." Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) "The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another. The high contracting parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may rise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means." Frank B. Kellogg (1856-1937) Paris, 1928 "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man... the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary." Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) "All delays are dangerous in war." John Dryden (1631-1700) (to be continued...) |
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"Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live forever?"
-- Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood, June 1918, attributed Philosophy is a fine thing for the armchair or the classroom, but when the whistle blows and it's time to go over the top, I'd rather have Gunny Daly beside me than Hobbes.
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Me too Des, me too... Gunny Daly or you, Scout, Seat, Pho, humper, Doc, LT... either one or all the above and certain others would be fine, more than adequate.
Interesting though, what philosophers think war is, eh? |
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U.S.Grant
"War is hell"
U.S. Grant |
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