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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart1897–193920 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 34
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Technology
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.
Albert Einstein1879–1955The Menace of Mass Destruction
- Patriotism
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action!
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Patriotism
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Only Then Shall We Find Courage”, New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Statement on the Atomic Bomb to Raymond Swing, before 1 October 1945, as reported in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 176, no. 5 (November 1945), in Einstein on Politics, p. 373
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Atom: Einstein, the Man Who Started It All”, Newsweek (10 March 1947)
I made one great mistake in my life⁠—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification⁠—the danger that the Germans would make them.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Recorded by Linus Pauling, “Note to Self regarding a meeting with Albert Einstein. November 16, 1954”
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein1879–1955The World As I See It (1949)
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
- Guns
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969