Perpetual War

Perpetual war refers to a lasting state of war with no clear ending conditions. It also describes a situation of ongoing tension that seems likely to escalate at any moment, similar to the Cold War.

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Famous quotes containing the words perpetual and/or war:

    “I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)