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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant
War, Patriotic, Eggs
Guy de Maupassant (1926*). “The Novels and Tales of Guy de Maupassant”

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Guy de Maupassant
Peace, War, Government
"On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

Guy de Maupassant
Peace, Real, War

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