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  • Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

  • When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.

    Country   War   Men  
    John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123
  • War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

    'The Custard Boys' (1960) ch. 13
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