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“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

“Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.”

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Book:The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Source: The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

“We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.”

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Author:John Lennon

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”

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Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”

“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”

“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

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Author:Thomas Mann

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”

“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“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.”

“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

“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

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

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

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Author:Ralph Bunche

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