| "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." »Albert Einstein |
| "There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee |
| "CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power." »Arthur C. Clarke |
| "Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." »Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick |
| "I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." »Albert Einstein |
| "If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way." »Gurdjieff |
| "We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators." »Neville Chamberlain |
| "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 Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." »David Brin |
| "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 |
| "One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary war'." »Winston Churchill |
| "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." »Brigham Young |
| "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 B. Johnson |
| "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis |
| "The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam war." »Edmund White |
| "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 |
| "The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern |
| "Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil war in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "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 Karamchand Gandhi |
| "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles |
| "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." »Winston Churchill |
| "Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West |
| "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." »Barack Obama |
| "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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