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War of Words

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War of Words at SWPS

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: humanities
University website: english.swps.pl

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War
War is a state of armed conflict between states or societies. It is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties.
War
General Taylor never surrenders.
Thomas L. Crittenden, Reply to Gen. Santa Anna. Buena Vista. Feb. 22, 1847.
War
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922); this is often misattributed to Plato[5].
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Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears !
The red-cross squadrons madly rage,
And mow thro' infancy and age...
Samuel Rogers, Ode to Superstition III.2. (1786).

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