To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: war ideas death nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. —Carl Sandburg More about this quote Tags: war humor peace progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war appeasement analogy crocodile Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. —Ivan Illich More about this quote Tags: war generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. —Marshall Rosenberg More about this quote Tags: war pain violence insult injury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: war wisdom intelligence disagreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each of us, we humans, if we are to look our own kind in the eye, should at least be willing to say we’re sorry, that all over our smaller and more lethal planet, whatever the causes, we’re still killing our own kind — the same but different, but our own kind nonetheless. —Thomas Lynch More about this quote Tags: war apology compromise death killing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The warrior energy of men now has to be used paradoxically to destroy the warrior psyche and the politics of warfare. It will require more courage and aggression than we’ve ever seen on the battlefield. —Sam Keen More about this quote Tags: war courage violence warrior energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. . . . Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: war love hate violence hatred darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: war history nuclear weapons USA tragedy Soviet Union Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is murder writ large. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: war violence murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. —J. B. Priestley More about this quote Tags: war politics age teenagers adolescents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: war love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. In a war such as this, then, what is victory and how will we recognize it? —Al Gore More about this quote Tags: war environmentalism Hitler enemy ally victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: war bombs lies earth sun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email