“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”
“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”
“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other b-----d die for his.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”