Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About War
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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