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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Peace with Honour, ch. 16 “Patriotism and Pledges,” sec. 5 (1934)

More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82508/

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Milne, A. A. - Peace with Honour, ch. 16 "Patriotism and Pledges," sec. 5 (1934) | WIST Quotations

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

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Olivier (SgtPerry)Feb 12

Que dire...
Mettre le titre des Doors.

This is the end
Beautiful friend

#casusbelli #JDR

WIST Quotations Dec 29

A quotation from Wendell Berry

We know that war depresses public dialogue and debate, enlarges executive power, diminishes citizens’ rights, encourages governmental secrecy and deception, and deforms the outlines of human decency. Thus a government making war for the sake of peace, freedom, and human dignity — as it will never cease to declare — will curtail the rights of prisoners, resort to torture, deny its errors, exaggerate its virtues, demonize the enemy, and (as is inevitable in modern war) kill many innocent people, including, of course, many children.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (2005-05-14), Commencement, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81057/

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Berry, Wendell - Speech (2005-05-14), Commencement, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky | WIST Quotations

We know that war depresses public dialogue and debate, enlarges executive power, diminishes citizens' rights, encourages governmental secrecy and deception, and deforms the outlines of human decency. Thus a government making war for the sake of peace, freedom, and human dignity -- as it will never cease to declare --…

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cathill Dec 27

Humans should treat other animals with dignity and respect, so that aliens would not be able to invade Earth under the guise of "protecting animals".
#animalrights #alieninvasion #aliens #animalcruelty #animals #spacewarfare #armedintervention #casusbelli #humanitarianintervention

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 2

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

Much has been said in this country about not wanting to participate in foreign wars and people who have said it, must now face the fact that foreign wars come very close to our own shores. We will always have not only the religious groups, but many groups who feel that war is wrong. I cannot imagine how anyone could feel otherwise with the picture before them today. But when force not only rules in certain countries, but is as menacing to all the world, as it is today, one cannot live in a Utopia which prays for different conditions and ignores those which exist.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1940-05-17), “My Day”

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…

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Column (1940-05-17), "My Day" - Roosevelt, Eleanor | WIST Quotations

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 23

A quotation from George Orwell

People forget that a soldier anywhere near the front line is usually too hungry, or frightened, or cold, or, above all, too tired to bother about the political origins of the war.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 1, New Road (1943-06)

More info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/79929/

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Essay (1942-08), "Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 1, New Road (1943-06) - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations

People forget that a soldier anywhere near the front line is usually too hungry, or frightened, or cold, or, above all, too tired to bother about the political origins of the war.

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Vinetur Oct 21

Casus Belli celebra diez vendimias en las viñas más altas de Andorra a 1.322 metros https://www.vinetur.com/2025102092390/casus-belli-celebra-diez-vendimias-en-las-vinas-mas-altas-de-andorra-a-1322-metros.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CasusBelli #VinoAndorra #Vendimia2023 #VinosFrescos #Andorra

cathill Oct 3

World War III scenario. UFO lands on a farm. Fearful farmer kills alien ambassador after being approached. Government agents seize the corpse and spaceship. Alien ambassador is dissected. Spaceship is taken apart for reverse engineering. Alien civilization is outraged by the primitive savagery of humans and decides to invade Earth in a punitive expedition.
#alieninvasion #aliens #ufo #ufolanding #firstcontact #worldwar3 #worldwar #war #diplomacy #casusbelli #murder #abuseofcorpse #fiction

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Argos Papiroflecta Sep 29

@edualvrz

Pues no he intentado escuchar #Ivoox en Firefox últimamente, pero desde hace unos días no me funciona la aplicación de Ivoox para Android: tan pronto parece abierta, se cierra otra vez.
Me fastidia porque, aunque tengo otra aplicación para podcasts que funciona mejor, en ella no puedo escuchar algunos podcasts clasificados como "Ivoox originals", como #ElAbrazoDelOso, #CasusBelli, #ElOcasoDeRoma, #ObservadorGlobal o #Medievalia.

cathill Sep 24

Aliens invade Earth on the pretext of liberating all animals from human oppression.
#alieninvasion #animalrights #war #extraterrestrials #aliens #earthinvasion #homosapiens #interventionism #casusbelli #politicalinterference