| 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 |  |
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
| *
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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
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.
Terrorism
is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
-- Peter
Ustinov |
|
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
| *
"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 |  |
Those who prefer
victory to peace will have neither - Anonymous
