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War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  1. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  2. Venice, it’s temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  3. Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  4. The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  5. All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  6. A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  7. IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED? – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  8. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  9. Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  10. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – John Emerich Edward Dalberg
  11. Puberty corrupts – that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent -“ that’s the concern. – Mohit Parikh
  12. Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we’ve got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever. – Rick Riordan
  13. Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  14. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  15. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. – John Emerich Edward DalbergActon
  16. War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
  17. That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will. – John Fowles
  18. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. – Helen Keller
  19. I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps – Thornton Wilder
  20. There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer. – Vineet Raj Kapoor
  21. We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill. – Marc Goodman
  22. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around. – Margaret Atwood
  23. She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away. – James Baldwin
  24. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms. – Richelle Mead
  25. Here we are,Arms in arms,Hearts to heartsWaiting in a haunted stop,For the sky to fall,When the world ends to a knot,We will rise into one. – Thilsath
  26. War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. – William Faulkner
  27. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. – Siegfried Sassoon
  28. The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never. – Amy Harmon
  30. They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. – Robert Jackson Bennett
  31. It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. – Mark Kurlansky
  32. War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. – Alan Alda
  33. Faith must withstand time. It can’t be a here today and gone tomorrow kind of trust. – Shelley Hitz
  34. Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
  35. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith
  36. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Hellen Keller
  37. Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. – Isaac Asimov
  38. Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  39. Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. – John Gunther
  40. Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. – George Holyoake

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