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“When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.”

Kind May Hands Eye Pain Form Peace Views Wonder Darkness Laughing Rain Warm Storm Firm Thunder

Book:Marlborough and Other Poems

Source: Marlborough and Other Poems

“We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.”

Children War Peace Views Pioneers Arsenal

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

“There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.”

Way Two War States Peace Views Offers Resources Privilege Resistance Revolutionary Two Ways Resisting Militarism Uncompromising

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of women and how resources are distributed.”

Important Peace Views Position Resources Negotiation Palestine Abba

Author:Margot Wallstrom

“I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”

War Peace Views Mankind Anti War Antiwar Peace War Great War Scourge

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”

War Peace Views Tendencies Anti War Antiwar Depressing

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“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.”

People War Eye Peace Views Sacrifice Activity Practicals Defined Outcomes Expenses Antiwar Emergencies Ubuntu Expenditures Peace Not War

Author:Susan Sontag