• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    If only.

    [T]he ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.

    • All Quiet on the Western Front, written by a WW1 veteran
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        14 days ago

        Nah, just good at vaguely remembering quotes and then googling things like “All Quiet On The Western Front generals quarrel quote”