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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
- Youth
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Humanité (18 July 1922)
- Patriotism
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Viktor Frankl1905–1997Postscript 1984: The Case for a Tragic Optimism, based on a lecture at the Third World Congress of Logotherapy, Regensburg University (19 June 1983)
- Good & Evil
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Josiah Quincy (11 September 1783)
Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.
Morgan Freemanborn 1937Se7en
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Synergetics (1975), “The Wellspring of Reality”
We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be “you or me,” so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete. This has never been done before.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan, 5 July 1947, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 87, p. 390.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (21 May 1925)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Non-Violence in Peace and War, 1942, Vol. 1, Ch. 142
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 (3 May 1919)