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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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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
Carson |
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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
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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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
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"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
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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I
am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I
do not want peace at any price.
-- Mohandas
Gandhi (1869-1948) |
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
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
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 Hussein of Jordan
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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
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
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
Noel-Baker |
Today
the real test of power is not capacity to make war
but capacity to prevent it.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick
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
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
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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
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
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.
Nothing
except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as
a battle won.
-- Duke Of Wellington
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
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
An
insincere peace is better than a sincere war - Yiddish
Proverb
Those who prefer victory to peace will have neither
- Anonymous
