“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Yet it cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens, to deceive friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; such methods may gain empire, but not glory.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“For a right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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