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Anyone who has the power
to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire
After each war there is
a little less democracy to save.
Brooks Atkinson
The world cannot
continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like
intellectual pygmies.
Basil O'Connor
As scarce as truth is,
the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
The release of atomic
energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the
necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
Education is a better
safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
We will bankrupt
ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In war, there are no
unwounded soldiers.
Jose Narosky
We thought, because we
had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Today the real test of
power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
You never need an
argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Noam Chomsky
War is just one more big
government program.
Joseph Sobran
Yes, we love peace, but
we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes
A visitor from Mars
could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements
of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow
One of the penalties for
refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by
your inferiors.
Plato
War is a quarrel between
two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle
All wars are fought for
money.
Socrates
A thing is not
necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
War is only a cowardly
escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
Mankind deserves
sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The best way to destroy
an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
The best defense is no
offense.
Dr. Ivan Eland
We have met the enemy
and he is us.
Walt Kelly – “Pogo”
Power always
thinks...that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
The price of empire is
America’s
soul, and that price is too high.
Sen. J. William
Fulbright
Our chiefs are
killed...The little children are freezing to death. My people... have no
blankets, no food...My heart is sick and sad...I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph
Laws are silent in time
of war.
Cicero
I'm fed up to the ears
with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
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
Of all the enemies to
public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises
and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
War doesn't make boys
men, it makes men dead.
Ken Gillespie
It is only those who
have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded
who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
Gen. Sherman
A state of war only
serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The guns and the bombs,
the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Is it not a strange
blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to
reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
Marquis de Sade
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