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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
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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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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
An
insincere 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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Those who prefer victory to peace will have neither
- Anonymous
