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To approve of warfare but criticize its methods, it has been well said is like approving of the wolf eating the lamb but criticizing the table-manners. War is war and not a game of sport to be played according to rules.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

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