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Simone Weil on war
Author: Simone Weil“What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.” -Simone Weil
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Henry Van Dyke on war
Author: Henry Van Dyke“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.” -Henry Van Dyke
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Kurt Vonnegut on war
Author: Kurt Vonnegut“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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Rush Limbaugh on war
Author: Rush Limbaugh“It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It’s not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.” -Rush Limbaugh
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Virginia Woolf on war
Author: Virginia Woolf“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?” -Virginia Woolf
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Chief Joseph on war
Author: Chief Joseph“We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.” -Chief Joseph
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Thomas Aquinas on war
Author: Thomas Aquinas“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.” -Thomas Aquinas
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Susan B. Anthony on war
Author: Susan B. Anthony“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.” -Susan B. Anthony
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John Maynard Keynes on war
Author: John Maynard Keynes“The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.” -John Maynard Keynes
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Albert Ellis on war
Author: Albert Ellis“As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.” -Albert Ellis
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Noah Webster on war
Author: Noah Webster“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” -Noah Webster
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on war
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Henry Rollins on war
Author: Henry Rollins“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.” -Henry Rollins
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Pope Benedict XVI on war
Author: Pope Benedict XVI“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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Isaac Bashevis Singer on war
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Alice Walker on war
Author: Alice Walker“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.” -Alice Walker
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Reinhold Niebuhr on war
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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James Madison on war
Author: James Madison“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.” -James Madison
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Douglas MacArthur on war
Author: Douglas MacArthur“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” -Douglas MacArthur
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George Santayana on war
Author: George Santayana“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.” -George Santayana
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Will Durant on war
Author: Will Durant“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.” -Will Durant
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Donald Rumsfeld on war
Author: Donald Rumsfeld“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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Anatole France on war
Author: Anatole France“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.” -Anatole France
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Henry Miller on war
Author: Henry Miller“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.” -Henry Miller
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Adrienne Rich on war
Author: Adrienne Rich“The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.” -Adrienne Rich