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It is ruthlessness -- being willing to perform even the most terrible acts in service of a cause or campaign -- that triumphs.

5000 years of recorded history proves that "Peace" cannot be something that is "negotiated"; the losers must beg for it.

"Peace" occurs when one party of a conflict conclusively defeats the second party and imposes it's conditions of surrender. "Peace" is not the absence of war but rather, the result of it.

Any other belief is self-delusion.

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5000 years of recorded history proves that "Peace" cannot be something that is "negotiated"; the losers must beg for it.

I have added this to my library of timeless quotes. I would have added "consclusively" (as in 'without exception') between "proves" and "that".

Why should a fact as obvious as this idea be so hard to comprehend and accept?