You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin

War comes a the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.
-- Adrienne Rich

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. -- Bertrand Russell War…seems a mere madness, a collective insanity. -- Bertrand Russell This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. -- Bertrand Russell

We are all victims of war, and we all count. -- Marla Ruzicka

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith. -- Anwar al-Sadat

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
-- Carl Sandburg

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
-- Jean Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

Everyone is always talking about our defense effort in terms of protecting women and children, but no one ever asks the women and children what they think.
-- Patricia Schroeder

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous" -- George Bernard Shaw

War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.
-- General William T. Sherman

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs
-- Silius Italicus

Freedom achieved by the sword is uniformly lost again, but … it is lasting when gained by peaceful agitation.
-- Herbert Spencer

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".
-- Max Stirner

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.
--Augusta Stowe-Gullen

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
-- Charles Sumner

Hence 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, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims."
-- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
-- Duke Of Wellington

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals … there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!
-- Walt Whitman

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
-- Thornton Wilder

An insincere peace is better than a sincere war - Yiddish Proverb

 

"We need to rethink our position in the world. We need to stop sending weapons to countries that oppress other people. We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times." -- Howard Zinn

 

Those who prefer victory to peace will have neither - Anonymous

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