The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war history humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: politics peace people governments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. —Anne O’Hare McCormick More about this quote Tags: war peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: hearts man ethics evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: war politics warfare resolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: war peace destruction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone speaks of peace; no one knows what peace is. We know at best a poisoned peace. No one has lived on an earth without weapons, without war and the threat of war on a large and small scale. —Christina Thürmer-Rohr More about this quote Tags: war peace weapons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian don’t hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and, most entertainingly, to “rid the world of evildoers.” —Arundhati Roy More about this quote Tags: war peace irrationality democracy terrorism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
J. Robert Oppenheimer, witnessing the first test of a nuclear weapon, confessed to tasting sin. But he and all his colleagues knew from the beginning what lay waiting at the end of the project. And which was the stronger flavor, the sin, or the satisfaction of having stolen fire from the gods? —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: nuclear weapons gods sin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: war weapons failure bombs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war. —Ignazio Silone More about this quote Tags: war wrong right Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. —David Friedman More about this quote Tags: war force children nations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can’t get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. —Martin Amis More about this quote Tags: war nuclear weapons insanity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands. —Deepak Chopra More about this quote Tags: war weapons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: ignorance error choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email