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“War would end if the dead could return.”

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“There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.”

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Author:Ernest Bevin

“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.”

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Author:Ralph Bunche

“Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.”

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Author:Marquis de Sade

“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?”

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Author:Marquis de Sade

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”

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Author:W. L. George

“War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.”

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Author:Ken Gillespie

“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”

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Author:William Ralph Inge

“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.”

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Author:Louis Lecoin

“We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.”

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Author:Ramsay MacDonald

“I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.”

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Author:John Frederick Maurice

“War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.”

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Author:John McCain

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"”

“War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.”

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Book:Technics and Civilization

Source: Technics and Civilization

“The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies”

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Author:Basil O'Connor

“I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.”

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Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.”

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Book:Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“War is fear cloaked in courage.”

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Author:William Westmoreland

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