Quotes about war
war casualties terror
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror. Alberto Gonzales
war two wife
I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler. Albert Einstein
war hate war-love
I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
war fighting praise
Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
war believe school
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press
war struggle party
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
war fighting men
Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
war common-sense people
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
war mind ordinary
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
war pieces despicable
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
war doe warfare
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated...
war men soul
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
war hatred intellectual
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
war past men
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
war people ends
Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
war government order
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
war government
That is the best Government, which best provides for war. Algernon Sidney
war writing impossible
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible. Alfred Nobel
war military army
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
war father hammers
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
war protect
War can protect; it cannot create. Alfred North Whitehead
war thinking people
If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution. Alfred Korzybski
war spirit blind-obedience
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Alexander Berkman
war mean thinking
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
war men opposites
Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.
war mean stupidity
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
war self deception
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. Alexander Cockburn
war america drug
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.
war sick firsts
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
war past years
If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq. Alcee Hastings
war enemy sides
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me Aldo Leopold
war lying people
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?
war unique men
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species. Aldous Huxley