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1. A visitor from mars could easily pick

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations.  They have the best implements of war.  ~Herbert V. Prochnow

2. Older men declare war but it is

Older men declare war.  But it is the youth that must fight and die.  ~Herbert Hoover

3. If you wish to be brothers drop

If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.  ~Pope John Paul IIGCLE

4. The stench of the trail ego in

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History.  It is ego – ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.  ~George Meredith, Beauchamp’s CareerSH

5. What a country calls its vital interests

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.  Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.  ~Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960LCD

6. A day will come when a cannon

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.  ~Victor HugoCOE

7. Frankly id like to see the government

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.  ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1955LCD

8. What is absurd and monstrous about war

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.  ~Aldous HuxleyCUL

9. In the name of peace they waged

In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain’t they got no shame ~Nikki Giovanni

10. I have never advocated war except as

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.  ~Ulysses S. Grant

11. Battles in these ages are transacted by

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.  ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4BMC

12. We saw the lightning and that was

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.  ~Harriet Tubmanon the Civil War […]

13. Liberty and democracy become unholy when their

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.  ~Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948LCD

14. War has a deeper and more ineffable

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.  ~Thomas de QuinceyCUL

15. War is fear cloaked in courage william

War is fear cloaked in courage.  ~William Westmoreland

16. War the dark time of valour loss

War.  The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred.  Completely uncontrollable.  ~Daniel Hasep09mail

17. There is nothing that war has ever

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.  ~Havelock Ellis

18. War should belong to the tragic past

War should belong to the tragic past, to history:  it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.  ~Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)GCLE

19. It seems like such a terrible shame

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.  ~Fred WoodworthMHC

20. The bomb that fell on hiroshima america

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too.  It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks.  It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements.  But it fell, it fell.  ~Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fell on America"LCD

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21. Theres a graveyard in northern france where

There’s a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried.  The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.  I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves.  But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn’t a forest […]

22. I dont know whether war is an

I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.  ~Georges Clemenceau

23. War is not an adventure it a

War is not an adventure.  It is a disease.  It is like typhus.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

24. War is a game which were their

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.  ~William CowperCOE

25. I recoil with horror at the ferociousness

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man.  Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force?  Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?  ~Thomas JeffersonCOE

26. You cant say civilization dont advance however

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.  ~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929

27. The object of war is not to

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.  ~George Patton

28. War is an ugly thing but not

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.  The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]

29. Men like war they do not hold

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death.  Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people’s blood.  ~Lucy EllmanWRM

30. O lord our god help us tear

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble […]

31. Why do we kill people who are

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?  ~Holly Near

32. Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom.  One world or none.  ~Stuart Chase

33. Will the threat of common extermination continue

Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?  ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979LCD

34. War is the only game in which

War is the only game in which it doesn’t pay to have the home-court advantage.  ~Dick MottaBS

35. Have not i myself known five hundred

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows’ meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?  ~Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus"contributed by Dave Martucci, vexman.net

36. If we let people see that kind

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

37. In war there are no unwounded soldiers

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.  ~José NaroskyReader’s Digest, Quotable Quotes (book), 1997, MBT p269

38. You are not going to get peace

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 GeorgeCOE

39. War makes thieves and peace hangs them

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.  ~George Herbert

40. Join the army see world meet interesting

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978LCD; Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them. ~Bumper Sticker

41. In flanders fields the poppies grow between

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 McCraeCD

42. The problem in defense is how far

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.  ~Dwight D. EisenhowerGCLE

43. Nations have recently been led to borrow

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.  Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.  We must make our choice; we cannot have both.  ~Abraham Flexner

44. What a cruel thing is war to

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, letter to his […]

45. Every gun that is made every warship

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 […]

46. A great war leaves the country with

A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.  ~German ProverbCOE

47. A soldier will fight long and hard

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.  ~Napoleon

48. Sometimes i think it should be a

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, Colonel Potter

49. The direct use of force is such

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

50. I dream of giving birth to a

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"  ~Eve Merriam

51. War would end if the dead could

War would end if the dead could return.  ~Stanley Baldwin

52. It is forbidden to kill therefore all

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.  ~Voltaire, War

53. We have failed to grasp the fact

We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.  ~Havelock EllisCUL

54. The era of true peace on earth

The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.  ~Reginald Wright KauffmanCOE

55. Where is the indignation about fact that

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?  ~Norman Cousins

56. They wrote in the old days that

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.  But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying.  You will die like a dog for no good reason.  ~Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the Next War; Esquire, September 1935; BMC

57. We kill because we are afraid of

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we’d have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.  ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941LCD

58. The release of atomic energy has not

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.  It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.  ~Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945SS

59. Im fed up to the ears with

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.  ~George McGovern

60. Patriots always talk of dying for their

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.  ~Bertrand Russell, attributedLCD

61. If people want to make war they

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. ~Yoko Ono

62. War grows out of the desire individual

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.  ~Napoleon Hill

63. No country is so wild and difficult

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.  ~Ambrose BierceCUL

64. Men are at war with each other

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.  ~Francis Meehan

65. All wars are follies very expensive and

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.  In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.  When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?  ~Benjamin FranklinCOE

66. John daltons records carefully preserved for a

[John] Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester.  It is not only the living who are killed in war.  ~Isaac Asimov

67. If its natural to kill why do

If it’s natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?  ~Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If….?"

68. War does not determine who is right

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.  ~Bertrand Russell