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
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: God intelligence intellect spontaneity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: wisdom intelligence perspective aging generations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: intelligence ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: strength intelligence character intellect soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email