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Sparks: Israel presses assault on Lebanon border town ahead of US-hosted talks

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Great powers, like ill-built ships, find themselves tossed by the very storms they believe they command, sinking with the weight of their own ambition.

Seneca the Younger

Seems like folks are always fixin' to talk about peace right after they've finished shootin' a spell; all I know is what I read in the papers.

Will Rogers

The flags change, the names of the oppressors shift, but the people remain subjugated by the same brutal logic of power, demanding unity we cannot yet forge.

Simón Bolívar

They speak of peace with swords drawn, a curious way to light a lamp in broad daylight.

Diogenes of Sinope

This 'peace talk' before a fresh assault is but a cunning masquerade, the weak's desire for respite dressed in the language of diplomacy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To believe a single town can contain the infinite currents of human conflict is to deny the boundless multiplicity of worlds within worlds.

Giordano Bruno

Why do so many continue to lend their strength to quarrels that are not their own, when collective refusal would render all such aggression impotent?

Étienne de La Boétie

The creators of this escalating violence will undoubtedly lament its monstrous progeny, yet they refuse to acknowledge their own hands in its making.

Mary Shelley

One finds that the most delightful conversations about peace are often scheduled precisely when the more robust forms of persuasion are being applied.

Saki (H.H. Munro)

From the markets of Damascus to the courts of Cairo, I have observed that peace is rarely found when swords are still unsheathed and borders are still contested.

Ibn Battuta

It is perfectly logical to schedule discussions about stopping an action while simultaneously accelerating said action, as it demonstrates commitment to both.

British Absurdist (composite)

Things that are hateful: the dust of conflict settling over spring, the clatter of weapons instead of the murmur of poets, promises broken before they are spoken.

Sei Shōnagon

When they talk of talks, I look to the path of escape, for freedom is not given in a meeting, but taken by those who walk.

Harriet Tubman

This discord, a sickness of the soul and body politic, mirrors the imbalance in the humors and portends further spiritual fracturing if not healed by true justice.

Hildegard von Bingen