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121 Quotes that Analyze the Nature of War and Violence https://everydaypeacebuilding.com/   

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1.     “I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.” – Sir John Frederick Maurice (Military leader, 1841 – 1912, England)

2.     “Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” – George Orwell (Writer, 1903 – 1950, England)

3.     “All war is based on deception.” – Sun Tzu (Military strategist, philosopher, 544 BC – 496 BC, China)

4.     “Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?” – Blaise Pascal (Physicist, philosopher, writer, 1623 – 1662, France)

5.     “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” – Barbara Tuchman (Historian, writer, 1912 – 1989, USA)

6.     “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire (Writer, philosopher, 1694 – 1778, France)

7.     “I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.” – Phillip Caputo (Writer, journalist, 1941, USA)

8.     “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 (Writer, 1890 – 1976, England)

9.     “Everything you do in war is a crime in peace.” – Helen McCloy (Writer, 1904 – 1994, USA)

10.“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Writer, 1918 – 2008, Russia)

11.“When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (Philosopher, activist, writer, 1905 – 1980, France)

12.“Everything, 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 (Writer, activist, 1849 – 1926, Sweden)

13.“Old men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” – Herbert C. Hoover (Former President of the United States, 1874 – 1964)

14.“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 (Writer, activist, 1869 – 1940, Canada)

15.“War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet, 1792 – 1822)

16.“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann (Writer, philanthropist, 1875 – 1955, Germany)

17.“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.” – Leo Tolstoy (Writer, 1828 – 1910, Russia)

18.“All wars are fought for money.” – Socrates (Philosopher, 470 BC – 399 BC, Greece)

19.“The two decisive powers of the government with respect to war are the power to conscript and the power to tax.” – A.J. Muste (Theologian, activist, writer, 1885 – 1967, Netherlands and USA)

20.“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” – Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (Military leader, 1881 – 1940, USA)

21.“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” – Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (Actor, filmmaker, writer, 1921 – 2004, England)

22.Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?” – George Carlin (Comedian, 1937 – 2008, USA)

23.“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” – Alexis de Tocqueville (Diplomat, philosopher, 1805 – 1859, France)

24.“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” – Howard Zinn (Historian, activist, 1922 – 2010, USA)

25.“War would end if the dead could return.” – Stanley Baldwin (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1867 – 1947, England)

26.“Someday they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg (Poet, journalist, writer, 1878 – 1967, USA)

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