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  • The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

    Children   War   Teaching  
    "Why I Am Not a Christian".
  • According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

    War   Men   Stupidity  
    Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press
  • The cause of war is preparation for war.

    W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.26, Courier Corporation
  • The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

    Peace   War   Judging  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.451
  • Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

    War   Causes   Harmony  
  • We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

    War   Blow   Causes  
    Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.191
  • Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

    War   Moving   Usual  
  • We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

    Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”
  • A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

    War   Smart   Names  
  • If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

    Peace   Hate   Ubuntu  
  • No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

    Revenge   Hate   War  
  • If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

    Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

    "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.
  • I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

    War   Office   Favors  
    Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

    Life   War   Events  
    "Quote Junkie: War and Patriotism". Book by Hagopian Institute, p.3, March 12, 2008.
  • Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

    Peace   Real   War  
    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.181, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

    War   Party   Duration  
    Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865
  • I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

    War   Race   White  
    Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858
  • Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

    War   Dirty   Greed  
  • The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

    War   Slavery   Causes  
  • War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

    War   Hands   Years  
  • My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

    War   Believe   Struggle  
    Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862
  • To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

    Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
  • 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.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953
  • The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

    War   Gains   Causes  
  • Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

    Peace   Hate   War  
  • The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

    Peace   War   Next  
    Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.151, PublicAffairs
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