“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”
“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”
“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.”
“It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.”
“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”
“I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.”
“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.”
“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”
“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”
“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”
“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.”
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”