I am not against all wars — just whichever is current. —Ken Gillespie More about this quote Tags: war opposition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: war hate irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the dead have seen the end of war. —Plato More about this quote Tags: war death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance. —Thomas Cahill More about this quote Tags: war history pain grace catastrophe outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: war law apology authority crime taxes capital punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More about this quote Tags: war love memory kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stop thinking this is all there is. . . . Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral. . . . Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. . . . Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious . . . there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable. —Mark Morford More about this quote Tags: war humanity beauty religion change world art temptation generosity magic resistance environment fatalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. —Jeannette Rankin More about this quote Tags: war winning earthquakes natural disasters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing, I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: war law children bombs killing care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: war politics patriotism harm humiliation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is addicted to wars of distraction. —Barbara Ehrenreich More about this quote Tags: war America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. —François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War would end if the dead could return. —Stanley Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war death 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 society politicians teenagers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email