One is left with the horrible feeling now
that war settles nothing;that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie ,Autobiography (1977)I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg (1878 -1967),The People,Yes (1936)
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to
the military.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 -1929)
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?
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 -1948),"Non-Violence in
Peace an
War" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politicswith bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung (1893 -1976)
It is well that war is so terrible,or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E.Lee (1807 -1870)
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
Never think that war,no matter how necessary,nor how justified,is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway |
I'm fed up to the ears with old men
dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
Issac AsimovI
believe in compulsory cannibalism.If people were forced to eat what they killed,there
would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the
world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H.L.Mencken
War:first,one hopes to win;then one expects the enemy to
lose;then,one is satisfied that he too is suffering;in the end,one is surprised that
everyone has lost.
Karl Kraus
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King Jr.
As long as war is regarded as wicked,it will always have it's fascination.When it is
looked upon as vulgar,it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without
fighting.
Sun Tzu
To establish any mode to abolish war,however advan-
tageous it might be to Nations,would be to take from uch Government the most lucrative of
its branches.
Thomas Paine |