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  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

    Art   Military   War  
    Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic
  • A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

    'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8
  • The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

    Fear   Truth   Tyrants  
  • I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

    War   Kids   Thinking  
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

    Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.103, Aegitas
  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

    Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153
  • Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.

    Country   Peace   War  
    Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.232, Algora Publishing
  • Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

    Spiritual   War   Evil  
    Charles Chatfield, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Barton Perry (1972). “ETHICS OF WAR”, Dissertations-G
  • It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

    Military   War   Evil  
    Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.10, Xist Publishing
  • I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing
  • It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

    War   Evil   Looks  
    Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.
  • I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

    Peace   War   Government  
    1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.
  • Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

    Art   War   Appreciate  
    Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.10, Xist Publishing
  • Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

    Religious   Liars   War  
    Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns
  • The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

    War   Men   Evil  
    William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.11
  • Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

    Peace   War   Home  
    Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.
  • The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

    War   Long   Evil  
    Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.231, Algora Publishing
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