War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own b…

Thomas Carlyle
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other. ✨ Attributed to Thomas Carlyle in Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, essay by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.
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