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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

John Boyd Orr
Revenge, War, Lust
"Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.