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We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international disputes by the application of man’s power of reason in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Debating Edward Teller, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests…Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958).
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic, Book VIII, 566e.In context
Nazism and Fascism are thoroughly beaten, but I must admit that their defeat does not mean that barbarism and brutality have been defeated.
Karl Popper1902–1994Utopia and Violence (1947)
- Good & Evil
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
Colin Powell1937–2021Pentagon press briefing on the Gulf War plan (23 January 1991)
I don’t have much truck with the “religion is the cause of most of our wars” school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015“I create gods all the time—now I think one might exist” (2008)
- Religion
There will be peace when we will achieve our goals.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952Said in annual Q&A session, quoted in “Putin says there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia’s goals, still unchanged, are achieved”, AP News (14 December 2023)
We will strive for the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952“Putin’s ‘Nazi’ rhetoric reveals his terrifying war aims in Ukraine”, Vox, 24 February 2022
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
Pythagoras583–491 BCOften credited to Tacitus
We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin1922–1995Speech to the US Congress (26 July 1994)
We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land.
Yitzhak Rabin1922–1995Excerpts of PM Rabin Knesset Speech (21 September 1993)
He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again.
JRJames Ray1957–2023Often credited to Tacitus
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Patriotism
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Address to the nation from the White House (16 January 1984)
There are some who’ve forgotten why we have a military. It’s not to promote war; it’s to be prepared for peace.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004“Address at Commencement Exercises at Eureka College in Illinois,” May 9, 1982