#war

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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