PHILOSOPHY OF WAR FROM DIFFERENT TIMES IN HISTORY

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PHILOSOPHY OF WAR FROM DIFFERENT TIMES IN HISTORY
Valentina Tenedini Istituto Regina M. Adelaide A
cross-curricular activity on the theme of war
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• Covenants without the swords are but words.
  (Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679)
• War has the higher significance that through it
  the moral health of people is preserved.
• (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
• War is ugly but not the ugliest of things. The
  feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is
  much worse.
• (John Stuart Mill 1806-1873)

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• Force is justifiable when it is ordered by a
  neutral authority in the general interest and
  not primarily in the interest of one of the
  parties to the quarrel.
• (Bertrand Russel 1872-1970)
• When the rich wage war it is the poor who will
  die.
• (Jean Paul Sartre 1905-80)

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• War is a series of catastrophes which result in
  Victory.
• (George Clemenceau)
• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it
  can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its
  futility, its stupidity.
• (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
• Nothing in life is as exhilarating as to be shot
  as without a result
• (Winston Churchill)

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• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up
  their passion, than to restrain them and direct
  them toward the patient labour of
  peace. (Andrè Gide)
• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure
  peace only by preparing for war.
• (J. F. Kennedy)
• Peace is more precious than a peace of land.
• (Anwar Sadat)

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• No bastard ever won a war dying for his country.
  You win a war by making the other dumb bastard
  die for his country.
• (General George Patton)
• Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an
  end to mankind.
• (J. F. Kennedy)
• There never was a good war or a bad peace.
• (Benjamin Franklin)

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PHILOSOPHY OF WAR FROM DIFFERENT TIMES IN HISTORY

• Simplify the idea expressed by each of the
  quotations
• Say who do you agree with or disagree the most
• Say how the attitude to war has changed over time
• See if you can relate any of these statements to
  wars in the world Today