My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a genera… — Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Pablo PicassoArtist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. — George Bernard Shaw
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