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I
am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do
not want peace at any price.
-- Mohandas K.
Gandhi
"If
we are to teach real peace in this world, and
if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
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Negotiation
talks are the best way to solve anything. We must
replace wars and weapons with negotiations and
talks.
~ Akbar Ganji
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I
have little faith in the theory that organized killing
is the best prelude to peace. -- Ellen Glasgow
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All
wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly
to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood
of the whole world to do the fighting for them.
-- Emma Goldman
The
contention that a standing army and navy is the
best security of peace is about as logical as
the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he
who goes about heavily armed.
-- Emma Goldman
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War
is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting
interests.
-- Germaine Greer
"Terrorism"
is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn
it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong,
and we glorify it.
-- Sydney
J. Harris
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I
really do inhabit a system in which words are
capable of shaking the entire structure of government,
where words can prove mightier than ten military
divisions.
-- Vaclav Havel
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Never
think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified,
is not a crime.
-- Ernest Hemingway
"In
peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order
of nature, and fathers bury sons."
-- Herodotus
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“I
believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no
expert - that this war is about what most wars are
about: hegemony, money, power and oil.”
-- Dustin Hoffman
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War
grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage
at the expense of his fellow man.
-- Napoleon Hill
If
people were forced to eat what they killed there would
be no more war.
-- Abbie Hoffman
So
long as governments set the example of killing their
enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill
theirs.
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Nothing
is more useless in developing a nation's economy
than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social
development more than the financial burden of war.
War is the arch enemy of national progress and the
modern scourge of civilized man.
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The
most shocking fact about war is that its victims
and its instruments are individual human beings,
and that these individual beings are condemned
by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder
or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
-- Aldous Huxley
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"And
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more."
-- Isaiah 2:4
The
first casualty, when war comes, is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson
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"Mankind
must put an end to war, or war will put an end
to mankind...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
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Everything
in war is barbaric … But the worst barbarity of war
is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against
which individually they would revolt with their whole
being.
-- Ellen Key
The
belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war
is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making
humanity really human.
-- Ellen Key
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"The
past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that
wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful
tomorrows."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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We
have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict
wants something more than it wants peace.
-- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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Every
war carries within it the war which will answer
it. Every war is answered by a new war, until
everything, everything is smashed.
-- Kathe Kollwitz
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Who
would ever have believed that human beings would be
stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the
earth? The war started when people accepted the idiotic
principle that peace could be maintained by arranging
to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly
use without committing suicide.
-- Stanley Kramer and John Paxton
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
"How
is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to
journalists and believe these lies when they see them
in print."
-- Karl Kraus, Die letzte Nacht, 1918
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War
can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a
face, a place and match it to families, then war
is not impersonal.
-- Dennis Kucinich
"The
belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling
prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see
the world as one, as interconnected."
-- Dennis Kucinich
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