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- “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Russell was a man of great honor during his time. He was a popular political activist who wanted the world to be ruled by one leader.
- “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky. Jose Narosky, a renowned Argentine writer and author tried to air out the negative impacts of war in several ways.
- “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu. Chinese military leader, strategist, philosopher, and author Sun Tzulived from 771 to 256 BC during the Eastern Zhou era.
- “War is what happens when language fails.” – Margaret Atwood. Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood is well-known for her speculative fiction novels, which frequently tackle challenging subjects connected to society, power, and human nature.
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
- Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. Martin Luther King, Jr. Kings, Revenge, Hate.
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi. Inspirational, Peace, War.
- It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Eleanor Roosevelt. Peace, Believe, Fidgeting.
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- “This is a war to end all wars.” — Woodrow Wilson, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson made the saying famous, but he was not the first one who used it. The British futurist writer and social commentator H.G.
- “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway, 1946. Hemingway was 18 years old when he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for WWI.
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — George Santayana, 1922. The Spanish-American philosopher said this statement to counter President Woodrow Wilson's words in his book Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies.
- “Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.” — Henri Barbusse, 1916. The French soldier said this in his novel Le Feu.
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1. “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” – John Stuart Mill 2. “It is well that war is so terrible otherwise, we should grow too fond of it.” – Robert Lee 3. “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it i...
10. “Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” – George Santayana 11. “War is what happens when language fails.” – Margaret Atwood 12. “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” – Napoleon Bonaparte 13. “Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.” – Benjamin Franklin 14. “War: a massacr...
19. “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” – George Washington 20. “The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero 21. “I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” – Ulysses Grant 22. “We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but th...
24. “Listen up―there’s no war that will end all wars.” – Haruki Murakami 25. “There is only one way to win a war which has begun: to stop it immediately. That is the way!” – Mehmet Murat İldan 26. “There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.” – Abraham Lincoln 27. “There’s no such thi...
31. “When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre 32. “In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace, the rich make slaves of the poor.” – Oscar Wilde 33. “War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” – George Orwell
34. “We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower 35. “Once we have a war, there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” – Ernest Hemingway 36. “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall f...
37. “The military doesn’t start wars. Politicians start wars.” – William Westmoreland 38. “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” – Carl von Clausewitz 39. “Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.” – Jeff Greenfield 40. “There’s nothing worth dying for in modern wars. Sold...
41. “We have to love each other more than we love wars.” – Anonymous 42. “War makes people sacrifice their lives and gives nothing in return except for suffering. It’s only love that can save the world.” – Anonymous 43. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybre...
44. “In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” – Herodotus 45. “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” – Herbert Hoover 46. “I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” – George McGovern 47. “War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague b...
49. “War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.” – Benjamin Disraeli 50. “All warfare is based on deception.” – Sun Tzu 51. “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” – H. G. Wells 52. “An unjust peace is better than a just war.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero 53. “But when will our leaders learn—war is not the answer.” – Helen Thomas 54. “Man becomes hi...
- "All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do." - The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908)
- "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
- "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
- "Amid this life based on coercion, one and the same thought constantly emerged among different nations, namely, that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love."
George Orwell. Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. George Orwell. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. George Orwell.
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice. (Voltaire) Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.
