QuoteQuest“War is not a courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. As it is now, war is the favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Bk. X, ch. 25
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Tolstoy, Leo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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