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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.
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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 Menchú
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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 Noel-Baker
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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 Paine.
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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
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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.
--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
