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“Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.”

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Book:What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

Source: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

“For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.”

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Author:David Horowitz

“Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.”

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Author:John Pilger

“American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?”

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Author:Gerald Celente

“If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.”

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Book:Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life

Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life

“Waging war is not a primary physical need.”

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Author:Susan Griffin

“As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.”

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Author:Samantha Power

“That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.”

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Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!”

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Book:CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

Source: CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

“We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.”

“Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.”

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Author:Mark Kennedy

“We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.”

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Author:Otto Schily

“Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.”

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Author:Molly Ivins

“Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”

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Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.”

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Author:Tariq Ali

“Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a long time and become an unquestioned habit, does that mean it should be allowed to continue.”

Should Humans Mean Long Doe Has Beens War Human Beings Environment Habit Long Time Destroying Waging War Destroying The Environment

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.”

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Author:Jim Clifton

“Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.”

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”

Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.”

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Book:63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

Source: 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

“One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?”

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Author:Josephine Baker

“But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.”

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Author:Ulrich Beck

“The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

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Author:George Orwell

“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war”

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Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.”

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Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.”

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Author:Alexander Cockburn

“I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.”

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Author:Cindy Sheehan

“Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.”

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Author:Rachel Held Evans

“There never was a good war or a bad revolution.”

Source: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel

“My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.”

Mean Doe War Government Rights Tyrants Objections Bearing Arms Waging War

Book:The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Edition of the Pivotal Constitution Debate: Including Articles of Confederation (1777), Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights & Other Amendments – All With Founding Fathers’ Arguments & Decisions about the Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Edition of the Pivotal Constitution Debate: Including Articles of Confederation (1777), Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights & Other Amendments – All With Founding Fathers’ Arguments & Decisions about the Constitution

“I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.”

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Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”

“This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty”

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Author:Maxine Waters

“Government is waging war against the people.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.”

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Author:Fredrik Bajer

“On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.”

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Author:Fredrik Bajer

“Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.”

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Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski