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War
and other institutional behaviors have no direct genetic
or neurophysiological basis.
-- David
Adams
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Only
in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive
and sole function of self-defense and the many interests
of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.
-- Jane
Addams |
Better
beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear
-- Aesop
Bullets
cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they
can be taken out of the gun.
-- Martin Amis
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Let
us face squarely the paradox that the world which
goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring
peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions,
but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry
or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil
men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome
of policies pursued by good men usually passionately
convinced that they are right.
-- Norman
Angell
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"Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal
instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the
sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and
making himself necessary to them as their leader."
-- Aristotle
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War
would end if the dead could return.
-- Stanley Baldwin
It takes
twenty years or more
of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of
war to destroy him.
--Baudouin I
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No
more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom,
salaam, forever.
-- Menachem
Begin |
The
pens which write against disarmament are made with the same
steel from which guns are made.
--Aristide Briand
Peace
is the best security If this phrase of the "balance of power"
is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war
will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
-- John Bright
"Say
it isn't true
That there always has been and always will be war
Say it isn't true
And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled
for
Say it isn't true
There always has been and always will be war"
--Jackson Browne, "Say It Isn't True"
The
pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
It hath
been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before
a just war.
-- Samuel Butler
It is
the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from
the consequences of them.
-- Philippa Carr
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight
in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies
or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we
set back the progress of humanity.
-- Rachel
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War
may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how
necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We
will not learn how to live together in peace by killing
each other's children.
-- Jimmy
Carter
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One
is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing;
that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one!
-- Agatha Christie
I cease
not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than
the most just war.
-- Cicero
Laws
are silent in time of war.
-- Cicero
I prefer
the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
-- Cicero
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"War
is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can
invent peace with justice."
-- Norman
Cousins |
No one
is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead
of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
-- Croesus, King of Lydia
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"Those advocates who work for world peace by urging
a system of world government are called impractical
dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled
to ask their critics what is so practical about war."
-- Walter
Cronkite
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“I
think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic
retributions that will follow. I think war is never
the answer to solving any problems. The best way to
solve problems is to not have enemies.”
--
Sheryl
Crow
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Wars
never hurt anybody except the people who die.
-- Salvador Dali
Very
few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result
was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must
choose: total love or total war.
-- Dave Dellinger
The
world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve
for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than
war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous
and dynamic faith.
-- John Foster Dulles
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Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
-- Bob
Dylan
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...how
many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
-- Bob
Dylan
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To
my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than
to commit ordinary murder.
--Albert
Einstein
My
pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory
but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty
and hatred.
--Albert
Einstein
Nothing
will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
-- Albert
Einstein
"War
cannot be humanized, only abolished"
-- Albert
Einstein
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"You
cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
-- Albert
Einstein
"I
know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert
Einstein
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I
hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility
and its stupidity.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
Every
gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who
are cold and are not clothed.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
"Disarmament,
with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing
imperative. Together we must learn how to compose
differences, not with arms, but with intellect and
decent purpose." -- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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When
people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them
to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to
hate war. War settles nothing.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
There
is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better
achieve without it.
-- Havelock Ellis
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If
governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts
are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but
by ordinary people.
-- Scilla
Elworthy
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You
don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
-- Geraldine Ferraro
The
tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's
worst.
-- Henry Fosdick
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"Our
principle is, and our practices have always been,
to seek peace, and ensue it, and to follow after righteousness
and the knowledge of God, seeking the good and welfare,
and doing that which tends to the peace of all...All
bloody principles and practices we do utterly deny,
with all outward wars, and strife, and fightings with
outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretence
whatsoever..."
-- George
Fox
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I
am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not
want peace at any price.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"If
we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we
are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have
to begin with the children."
-- Mohandas
Gandhi
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Negotiation
talks are the best way to solve anything. We must
replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
~ Akbar
Ganji
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I have
little faith in the theory that organized killing is the
best prelude to peace. -- Ellen Glasgow
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All
wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to
fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of
the whole world to do the fighting for them.
-- Emma
Goldman
The
contention that a standing army and navy is the best
security of peace is about as logical as the claim
that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about
heavily armed.
-- Emma
Goldman
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War
is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
-- Germaine Greer
"Terrorism"
is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn
it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and
we glorify it.
-- Sydney
J. Harris
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I
really do inhabit a system in which words are capable
of shaking the entire structure of government, where
words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
-- Vaclav
Havel
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Never
think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified,
is not a crime.
-- Ernest Hemingway
"In
peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature,
and fathers bury sons."
-- Herodotus
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“I
believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert
- that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony,
money, power and oil.”
-- Dustin
Hoffman |
War
grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage
at the expense of his fellow man.
-- Napoleon Hill
If people
were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more
war.
-- Abbie Hoffman
So
long as governments set the example of killing their
enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill
theirs.
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Nothing
is more useless in developing a nation's economy than
a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development
more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch
enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of
civilized man.
-- King
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The
most shocking fact about war is that its victims and
its instruments are individual human beings, and that
these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous
conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in
quarrels not their own.
-- Aldous
Huxley
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"And
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
-- Isaiah 2:4
The
first casualty, when war comes, is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson
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"Mankind
must put an end to war, or war will put an end to
mankind...War will exist until that distant day when
the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation
and prestige that the warrior does today."
--John
F. Kennedy
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Everything
in war is barbaric … But the worst barbarity of war is that
it forces men collectively to commit acts against which
individually they would revolt with their whole being.
-- Ellen Key
The
belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is
to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity
really human.
-- Ellen Key
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"The
past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars
are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
--
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have
war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants
something more than it wants peace.
-- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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Every
war carries within it the war which will answer it.
Every war is answered by a new war, until everything,
everything is smashed.
-- Kathe
Kollwitz
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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.
-- Stanley Kramer and John Paxton
War:
first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose;
then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the
end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
-- Karl Kraus
"How
is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists
and believe these lies when they see them in print."
-- Karl Kraus, Die letzte Nacht, 1918
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War
can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face,
a place and match it to families, then war is not
impersonal.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
"The
belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling
prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the
world as one, as interconnected."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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War
is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization
after civilization
-- Philip
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Today
the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity
to prevent it.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick
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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
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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
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"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
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You
can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
-- Jeannette
Rankin
There
can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed
or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency
or codified into common sense.
-- Jeannette
Rankin
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War
comes a the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure
of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can
be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about
themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.
-- Adrienne Rich
The
strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability
to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
-- Gene Roddenberry
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More
than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning
of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman
and thoroughly impractical method of settling the
differences between governments.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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War
does not determine who is right - only who is left.
-- Bertrand
Russell
War…seems
a mere madness, a collective insanity.
-- Bertrand
Russell
This
idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible
and is something which no one with one spark of humanity
can tolerate.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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Let
there be no more war
or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there
be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there
be no more despair or loss of faith.
-- Anwar
al-Sadat
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Sometime
they'll give a war and nobody will come.
-- Carl Sandburg
When
the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
-- Jean Paul Sartre
If a
victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish
it from a defeat.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everyone
is always talking about our defense effort in terms
of protecting women and children, but no one ever
asks the women and children what they think.
~ Patricia
Schroeder
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Preparedness
for war is an incentive to war, and the only hope of permanent
peace is the systematic and scientific disarmament of all
the nations of the world
-- Anna
Howard Shaw
War
is cruelty and you cannot refine it.
-- General William T. Sherman
Nothing
fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace
than countless triumphs
-- Silius Italicus
Freedom
achieved by the sword is uniformly lost again, but … it
is lasting when gained by peaceful agitation.
-- Herbert Spencer
The
State practices "violence," the individual must not do so.
The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence
"law"; that of the individual, "crime".
-- Max Stirner
When
women have a voice in national and international affairs,
wars will cease forever.
--Augusta Stowe-Gullen
War
crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all
that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace
that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
-- Charles Sumner
Hence
to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme
excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the
enemy's resistance without fighting.
-- Sun Tzu
"We,
the peoples
of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations
from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has
brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith
in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, in the equal right of men and women and
of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice
tolerance and live together in peace with one another as
good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to
accomplish these aims."
-- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.
Terrorism
is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism
of the rich.
-- Peter
Ustinov
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Nothing
except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle
won.
-- Duke Of Wellington
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I
was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is
worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals
… there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the
wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em!
God damn 'em!
~ Walt
Whitman
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When
you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're
at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
-- Thornton Wilder
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peace is better than a sincere war - Yiddish Proverb
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"We need to rethink our position in the world. We
need to stop sending weapons to countries that oppress
other people. We need to decide that we will not go
to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians
or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate,
a war against innocents, a war against children. War
is terrorism, magnified a hundred times."
-- Howard
Zinn
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