Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.
Copy QuoteIt is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Copy Quote View & ShareOurs is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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