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“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”

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Author:E. B. White

“War is the business of barbarians.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.”

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Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.”

War Life Is Peace Consequence Owners Anti War Antiwar

Author:James Wolcott

“It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.”

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Book:Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

Source: Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

“The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”

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Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”

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Author:Omar N. Bradley

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

“I think war is a dangerous place.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

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Author:William Ellery Channing

“So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.”

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Book:Novels, 1930-1935

Source: Novels, 1930-1935

“What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.”

Source: The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”

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Book:Vorkosigan's Game

Source: Vorkosigan's Game

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

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Author:Aeschylus

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.”

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Author:Cesar Chavez

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.”

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Author:Smedley Butler

“War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

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Book:War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.”

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Author:Smedley Butler

“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”

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Author:Smedley Butler

“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.”

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Author:Taylor Caldwell

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

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Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”

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Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.”

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Book:Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life

Source: Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope

“There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.”

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Book:Living Faith

Source: Living Faith

“The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?”

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Author:Bennett Cerf

“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”

“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”

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Author:John Lindsay

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

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Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.”

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Author:Alfred Adler

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