War Is Stupid Dot Com: Observations on war

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"The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans." — Hermann Hesse
War	"A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace." — Albert Einstein
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." — Abraham Lincoln	Is	"Whenever there’s a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put ’em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs." — Maxwell Anderson
"The real trouble with modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people." — Ezra Pound		Stupid	"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." — George Washington
"... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle." — Pearl S. Buck			Dot	"When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty." — Arthur Ponsonby
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election". — Bill Vaughan		"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us—avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." — Francesco Petrarch		Com
	"This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world." — George W. Bush, U.S. President, Republican Party "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." — Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President, Republican Party

War	Danae: "Sometimes I wonder how we got words. Like, where does 'war' come from?" Dad: "It's a universal acronym." Danae: "An acronym of what?" Dad: "We Are Right." — from the cartoon Non Sequitur by Wiley
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." — Robert E. Lee	Is	"When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?" — Frank Borman, U.S. astronaut
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." — Mother Teresa		Stupid	"War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat." — Shri Aurobindo
"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			Dot	"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war." — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it." — Havelock Ellis		"Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life." — Alice Thomas Ellis		Com
War	"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing." — Dwight D. Eisenhower		"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." — Thomas Jefferson
"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." — General Omar Bradley	Is	"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
"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." — Agatha Christie		Stupid	"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies." — Lester B. Pearson
"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world." — Lyndon Baines Johnson			Dot	"War is terrorism." — Lucy Hinton, high school student
"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another." — J. Martin Kohe		"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." — André Gide		Com
War	"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed... we, too, will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battles or politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit." — John F. Kennedy			"War is like love, it always finds a way". — Bertolt Brecht in Mother Courage
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." — Desiderius Erasmus	Is	"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." — Thomas Alva Edison
"If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States." — Bill Gates		Stupid	"Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society." — Frederick Moore Vinson
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." — General William Tecumseh Sherman			Dot	"If we don't end war, war will end us." — H. G. Wells
"Formerly, a nation that broke the peace did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives.... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory.... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world". — Ellen Key				Com
War	"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." — Ralph Waldo Emerson		"What is human warfare but just this: an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party." — Henry David Thoreau
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." — Edward Everett	Is	"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences." — Harry S. Truman
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire		Stupid	"War is not nice." — Barbara Bush, wife of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, mother of U.S. President George W. Bush
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." — Dwight D. Eisenhower			Dot	"War is the unfolding of miscalculations." — Barbara W. Tuchman
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." — Lyndon Baines Johnson		"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?" — Dr. Benjamin Spock		Com
War	"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 Ellman		"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular." — Oscar Wilde
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." — Albert Einstein		Stupid	"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." — Mohandas Gandhi
"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 or democracy?" — Mohandas Gandhi			Dot	Another victory like that and we are done for." — Pyrrhus
"War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at 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				Com
War	"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.... If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake." — Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Taylor of Philadelphia, June 4, 1798, after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act)
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." — Herbert Hoover	Is	"War in the end is always about betrayal. Betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians and idealists by cynics." — Author and former war correspondent Chris Hedges
"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		Stupid	"The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves." — Pierre Trudeau
"I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."— General Douglas MacArthur			Dot	"I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows." — Paddy Chayefsky
"Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower				Com
War	"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution." — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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