“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
“War,” p. 86
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
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Remark (November 1914), Paul Dehn, Hindenburg, als Erzieher (1918), p. 12, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 74
Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor
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Terry Jones (1942–2020) Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and author
The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,901052,00.html, February 23, 2003.
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Variant: If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019) leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
As quoted in "Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi resurfaces in audio urging supporters to join terror group", Independent (15 May 2015)
2014, 2015
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-resurfaces-in-audio-urging-supporters-to-join-terror-group-10251955.html
“My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Politique intérieure, je fais la guerre; politique extérieure, je fais la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre.
"Discours de Guerre" [Speech on War] Chambre des Députés, Assemblée Nationale, Paris (8 March 1918)