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| Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~ Charles Sumner |
| War does not determine who is right – only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~ Author unknown, quoted in |
| I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~ Eve Merriam |
| The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~ Albert Einstein |
| The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~ David Friedman |
| "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. ~ James Morrow |
| Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~ M*A*S*H |
| All the arms we need are for hugging. ~ Author Unknown |
| A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~ Napoleon |
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| If we do not end war – war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~ H.G. Wells |
| A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~ German Proverb |
| The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~ Omar Bradley |
| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums. ~ Arthur Koestler, |
| What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~ Robert E. Lee |
| Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals. ~ Colman McCarthy |
| War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ~ John F. Kennedy |
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
~ John McCrae |
| What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~ Author Unknown |
| Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them. ~ Pacifist Badge |
| Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~ Ernest Hemingway |
| War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~ George Herbert |
| You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeanette Rankin |
| You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ~ David Lloyd George |
| Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come. ~ Carl Sandburg |
| In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~ José Narosky |
| We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage. ~ James Russell Lowell |
| If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. ~ Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War |
| I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy…. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~ Sir George Porter, quoted in |