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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Margaret Atwood
War, Disease, Killers
Source: www.macleans.ca

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

Margaret Atwood
War, Needs, Our Actions

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood
War, Empowering, Language
Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.46, Hachette UK

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Margaret Atwood
War, Winning, Thinking
Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

Margaret Atwood
War, Safe, Canada

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

Margaret Atwood
War, Bridges, Car
Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.1, Anchor

The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

Margaret Atwood
War, Thinking, Glasses
Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

Margaret Atwood
War, Fire, Ashes
Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.

Margaret Atwood
War, Distance, Home
Source: www.macleans.ca

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

Margaret Atwood
War, Parent, Environmental
Source: progressive.org

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