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Pearl S. Buck Quotes about War

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though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

Pearl S. Buck
War, Men, Hands
Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War”, p.451, Open Road Media

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

Pearl S. Buck
Country, Peace, War
Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.480, Open Road Media

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

Pearl S. Buck
Running, Real, War

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Pearl S. Buck
War, Reality, Men

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

Pearl S. Buck
War, Coarse, Wanted
Pearl S. Buck (1982). “The Old Demon”, Creative Education

... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

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Peace, War, Mean
Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.77, Open Road Media

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Pearl S. Buck
War, Intelligent, Epidemics
Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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