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I
don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have
respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war.
-- Avril
Lavigne |
If
it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized,
I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds
of corpses.
-- Louis Lecoin
The
way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed
by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
--Max Lerner
War
is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult
to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ.
-- Muriel Lester
|
There is no honorable way to
kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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It has now become
clear to the whole world that each war is the creation of a preceding war and
the generation of a new present or future wars.
-- Maxim Maximovich Litvinov
Certain peace
is better and safer than anticipated victory
-- Livy (c 29BC)
The
belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most
ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
-- Robert Lynd
The
great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the
greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
-- Douglas
MacArthur
 | I'm
fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
-- George McGovern |
Put up again thy
sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.
-- Bible, Matthew 26:52
| Warmaking doesn't
stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
-- Colman McCarthy
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Everything you do
in war is a crime in peace
-- Helen McCloy
There's
no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others
to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
-- Golda Meir
It
is true that we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want
victories anymore.
-- Golda Meir
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We
have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to
use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems.
We cannot embrace that path.
--
Rigoberta Menchu |  |
I dream of
giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
-- Eve Merriam
Peace
hath her victories No less renown'd than war.
-- John Milton
| The problem
after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence
pay. Who will now teach
him a lesson?
-- A.
J. Muste |  |
 | War
is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization
-- Philip Noel-Baker
|
Today
the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick
 |
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations,
would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
-- Thomas Paine. |
Can anything be
more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives
on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine,
though I have none with him?
-- Blaise Pascal
It
seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
-- Katherine Paterson
 | "Does
the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret
it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt
not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?"
-- Linus
Pauling |
Who
would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves
off the face of the earth? The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle
that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons
they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.
--John Paxton and
Stanley Kramer
The
true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms but in mutual
trust alone.
-- Pope John XXIII
Let
us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting
true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations,
for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity
of the free human being.
-- Pope John Paul II
No
more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of
people and of all mankind.
-- Pope Paul VI
Those
who give the orders
are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and
the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.
-- Katherine Anne Porter
