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War is the greatest
plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states,
it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
Why do we kill people
who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Holly Near
We know how to organize
warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Permanent good can never
be the outcome of untruth and violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not disturbing the
peace. I'm disturbing the war.
Ammon Hennacy
When the rich make war,
it's the poor that die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Violence is the first
refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
After a war, a hero is
just a man with one leg.
Fight the rich, not their wars!
War is the health of the
state.
Randolph
Bourne
Nationalism is an
infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
The ideal weapons system
is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it
works or not.
Alain C. Enthoven
War is delightful to
those who have not experienced it.
Erasmus
I believe in compulsory
cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no
more war.
Abbie Hoffman
They talk about
conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetery.
Meyer London
It is no measure of
health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society,
Krishnamarti.
In politics stupidity is
not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Patriotism is the
willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
My function in life was
to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.
Quentin Crisp
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now,
when?
Hillel
Smooth seas do not make
skillful sailors.
african proverb
Power tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
If we have no peace, it
is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Men are at war with each
other because each man is at war with himself.
Francis Meehan
Sometimes I think war is
God's way of teaching us geography.
Paul Rodriguez
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
François Fénelon
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they
kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
I will permit no man to
narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T Washington.
Prayer is less about
changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
David Wolpe
He not busy being born
is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
You can’t depend on your
judgement when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
The human race has one
really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
The more we sweat in
peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
When the power of love
overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Peace cannot be kept by
force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Be not angry that you
cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as
you wish to be.
Thomas A. Kempis
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