War?
"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 and democracy?"
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Any intelligent fool can make
things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius
— and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein
"After each war there is a
little less democracy to save."
- Brooks Atkinson
"The guns and the bombs, the
rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
- Lyndon B Johnson
"Today the real test of power
is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it."
- Anne O'Hare McCormick
"When the rich make war it's
the poor that die."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Violence is the first refuge
of the incompetent."
- Issac Asimov
"I have marched in many a battle
host, but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own
hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed
than a field steeped in blood."
- Lloyd Alexander (Adaon, "The Black Cauldron")
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
- Malcolm X
"Never think that war, no matter
how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love
can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Patriotism is your conviction
that this country is superior to all other countries because you were
born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"To fight and conquer in all
your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in
breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
- Sun Tzu
"We are really appalled by
any country, whether a superpower or a small country, that goes outside
the United Nations and attacks independent countries."
- Nelson Mandela
"The notion of justified pre-emption
runs counter to modern international law, which sanctions the use of force
in self-defense only against actual — not potential — threats."
- Henry Kissinger
"The great masses of the people
will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one."
- Adolf Hitler
compiled by Shannon Larratt