[lit-ideas] war
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:49:33 EST
"Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing
others.": Marcus Tullius Cicero - (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher
and Orator
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"The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take
away." : Immanuel Kant - (1724-1804) German philosopher
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"There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means
to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of
peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force
of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes.
But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the
will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?"
[Erasmus of Rotterdam 1469-1536, Adages IV.i.1]
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