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Quotes on War & Peace:
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
--Jeannette Rankin
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
--Henry Havelock Ellis
"Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood."
--Lucy Ellman
"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
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
--Mohandas Gandhi
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
--Ernest Hemingway
"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
--John F. Kennedy
"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
--Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
--Thomas Mann
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
--Bertrand Russell
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
--Jean-Paul Sartre
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
--Senator George McGovern
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
--General Omar Bradley
"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."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war."
--Pentagon official, on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
"All war is deception."
--Sun Tzu