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-->-- ''Music/{{Metallica}}'', "[[Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct Confusion]]

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-->-- ''Music/{{Metallica}}'', '''Music/{{Metallica}}''', "[[Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct Confusion]]
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-> ''Leave the battlefield
Yet its horrors never heal
Coming home from war
Pieces don't fit anymore
Make it go away

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-> ''Leave the battlefield
battlefield\\
Yet its horrors never heal
heal\\
Coming home from war
war\\
Pieces don't fit anymore
anymore\\
Make it go awayaway\\
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-> ''Leave the battlefield
Yet its horrors never heal
Coming home from war
Pieces don't fit anymore
Make it go away
Please, make it go away''
-->-- ''Music/{{Metallica}}'', "[[Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct Confusion]]



-->-- '''Music/{{Metallica}}''', "One"

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-->-- '''Music/{{Metallica}}''', "One"
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->It wasn't really... fun. So many people ''died''! Granch did...And all his family. But Dark Opal's dead now, too, and I...I'm awfully tired...
-->'''Amy Winston''', ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld''
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->''"I hoped today might be a good day. [[HopeSpot Hope is a dangerous thing.]] That's it for now, then next week, Command will send a different message: "Attack at dawn." There is only one way this war ends: Last man standing."''
-->-- '''Colonel [=MacKenzie=]''', upon receiving an official order to abort the ongoing attack on the German forces, ''Film/NineteenSeventeen''
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'''Ukrainian neighbor:''' I dunno. Some complicated geopolitical bulls**t that's going to ruin your life and mine.\\

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'''Ukrainian neighbor:''' I dunno. Some complicated geopolitical bulls**t that's going to ruin your life and ''and'' mine.\\
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->''"The War is Over. We've all had a bellyfull. The lights are on again. Some day when I'm older, someone may read a part of this diary, -- a son, a daughter or their children. War is a blasted stinking show for a cause which is sooon forgotten, and which is fed by propaganda and fanned by hysteria. The bugles blow and the bands play, but that is not the true picture YOU see. War is for the Generals and THEY see the glory, but not the honor and hardship of their field troops. Medals are never given deservedly to many -- many who should be recognized -- and a medal bestowed is from then on to be hidden, and bow your head if you ever show one when that war is over.\\
The code of men who really know and see is silence, because of a civilian ignorance and misunderstanding. All wars are the same and cannot be reported by anyone. Who can, if he is caught in the terrific noise and confusion, the filth, disease, cold -- and then so hot you stink like a dirty animal, -- scared -- wondering when, and not asking why?\\
Don't look for glamour. There is none. Correspondents can write and pick their spots. We can't."''
-->--'''Diary entry of unnamed U.S. Army Lieutenant''', November 11, 1918
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->Wars don't end happily. Not ever.
-->-- '''Creator/KAApplegate'''

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-> As there was no compulsion towards a conflict which, in despite of the apparent bitterness of parties, took so long to engage and needed so much assiduous blowing to fan the flame, so no right was vindicated by its ragged end. The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict. The overwhelming majority in Europe, the overwhelming majority in Germany, wanted no war; powerless and voiceless, there was no need even to persuade them that they did. The decision was made without thought of them. Yet of those who, one by one, let themselves be drawn into the conflict, few were irresponsible and nearly all were genuinely anxious for an ultimate and better peace. Almost all--one excepts the King of Sweden--were actuated rather by fear than by lust of conquest or passion of faith. They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war.

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-> As ->''"As there was no compulsion towards a conflict which, in despite of the apparent bitterness of parties, took so long to engage and needed so much assiduous blowing to fan the flame, so no right was vindicated by its ragged end. The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict. The overwhelming majority in Europe, the overwhelming majority in Germany, wanted no war; powerless and voiceless, there was no need even to persuade them that they did. The decision was made without thought of them. Yet of those who, one by one, let themselves be drawn into the conflict, few were irresponsible and nearly all were genuinely anxious for an ultimate and better peace. Almost all--one excepts the King of Sweden--were actuated rather by fear than by lust of conquest or passion of faith. They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war."''


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->''"How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dugout? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried the bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?"''
-->-- '''Smedley Butler''', ''War Is a Racket''

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