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You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Humanité (18 July 1922)
- Patriotism
I look forward to a future when acts of war shall be formally outlawed as between civilized peoples.
William James1842–1910The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can’t stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Bennington College address (1970)
- Science
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (2002), p. 50
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“Kingdom of Fear” (12 September 2001)
- America
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Farewell Address (January 1981)
I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
Ann Coulterborn 1961Interview with George Gurley in The New York Observer (January 10, 2005).
Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Nobel lecture (1989)
- Nature
Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950“Kurukshetra” in Essays on the Gita (1995), p. 39
- Power
There is no way I am going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussexborn 1984Interview marking his 21st birthday (September 2005)
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the United Nations (1963)
War robs you mentally and physically, it drains you. Things don’t thrill you anymore. It’s a struggle every day to find something interesting to do.
Audie Murphy1925–1971“Quotation from Audie Murphy: American Soldier”, by Harold Simpson (1999), pp. 369-371
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- History
With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Charity
- Forgiveness
Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Hope
- Prayer