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Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
-George Orwell
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Preventive War Is A Crime Not Easily

George Orwell
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
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A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. how could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? that isn't preventive war; that is war.
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Every time a crime was committed by a muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. when a crime is committed by a christian, do they mention his religion? ... when a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'an african american man was arrested today...' but what about german americans? anglo americans? a white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of scottish descent? in no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.
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Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that i cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. but, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. to punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
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I am a mexican. the united states lived seventy-five years with the one party system in mexico - the pri - without batting an eyelid, never demanding democracy of mexico. democracy came because mexicans fought for democracy and made a democracy out of our history, our possibilities, our perspectives. democracy is not something that can be exported like coca-cola. it has to be bred from the inside, according to the culture, the conditions of each country.
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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. a defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. but never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ask the infantry and ask the dead.
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