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“I have fought the fine fight, I have run the course to the finish, I have observed the faith.” – Apostle Paul – 2 Tim. 4:7 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Pursuing peace is more important than being right. – Anonymous
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War 1V will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein
General Mereau (George MacCready) after the execution of three of his own men for cowardice: “This sort of thing is always rather grim. But this had splendor, don’t you think?” Gen. Broulard (Adolph Menjou): “I have never seen an affair of this type handled any better.” General Mereau: “The men died wonderfully. There’s always a chance that one will do something that will leave everyone a bad taste. This time you couldn’t have asked for better.”– PATHS OF GLORY– Stanley Kubrick / Jim Thompson / Calder Willingham – 1957
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money. – Cicero
What is so absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. – Aldous Huxley
The welfare of people has always been the alibis of tyrants. – Albert Camus
We must recognize the chief characteristics of the modern era—a permanent state of what I call violent peace. – U. S. Navy Admiral James D. Watkins
Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) – (recognizing him as a former prisoner): “You!” Major Shears (William Holden) – (lunging at him) “YOU!” Colonel Nicholson, realizing the bridge he’s built is supposed to be destroyed by the army: “What have I done?” – BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI – C. Foreman / M. Wilson – 1957
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – James Madison
If you live long enough, you’ll see every victory turn into a defeat. – Simone de Beauvoir – French female writer and social theorist
After the Roman Empire officially embraced Christianity, the Just War Theory was developed to reconcile warfare with Christian belief. After Theodosius 1 made Christianity the official religion of the Empire, this position slowly developed into the official position of the Western Church. In the 11th century there was a further shift of opinion in the Latin-Christian tradition with the Crusades, strengthening the idea and acceptability of Holy War. Objectors became a minority. Some theologians see the loss of a pacifist position as a great failing of the Church. – Historical Commentary from Jehovah’s Witnesses on War
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. – Ronald Reagan
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“And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. And it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever.” – Prophet Daniel – Dan.2:44 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. – Albert Einstein
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! – David G. Farragut (Battle of Mobile Bay, 8/5/1864
When a war is over, I think it is a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there’s nowhere safe. That’s what I think is insidious about landmines. – Paul McCartney
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your life to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. – Noel Coward
“War, huh, good God, ya’ll! What is it good for?...Absolutely nothing!” – Edwin Starr – 1970
I hate war only as a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. – Dwight D. Eisenhauer
“We used to think you knew. The first bombardment taught us better. It’s dirty and painful to die for your country. When it comes to dying for your country, it is better not to die at all! There are millions out there dying for their countries, and what good is it?”– Paul Baumer (Lew Ayers) to his class and former teacher, Professor Kantorek, about the truth and horrors of war. – ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - Maxwell Anderson / George Abbott – 1930
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. – Charles De Gaulle
Make it big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe. – Adolph Hitler
“Madness! Madness!” – Major Clipton (James Donald) at conclusion after the destruction of the bridge. – THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI – Carl Foreman / Michael Wilson – 1957
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. – General George Patton
True Christians were strangers and pilgrims in the world around them; their citizenship was in heaven. The kingdom to which they looked was not a part of the world. Their lack of interest in public affairs was from the outset a noticeable feature of Christianity. – E.G. Hardy – CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT
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“If only you would pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. – Prophet Isaiah – Isa. 48:18 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to 500 million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day of modern warfare? – Peter Ustinov
In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus (Greek Tragedy Writer) c. 450 B.C.E.
General Mereau (George MacCready): “Just as a child wants his father to be firm, troops crave discipline. One way to maintain discipline is to shoot a man now and then.” Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas): “May I ask…do you sincerely believe the thing you just said?” – PATHS OF GLORY– Stanley Kubrick / Jim Thompson / Calder Willingham – 1957
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. – Joseph Heller
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson
“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renassaince. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.” – Orson Welles - The Third Man -1949 - screenplay Graham Greene
What if somebody gave a war and nobody came? Life would ring the bells of ecstasy and forever be itself again. – Allen Ginsberg – GRAFFITI – 1972
In warfare there is no substitute for victory. – General Douglas MacArther
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring it to the end. – Huburt Humphrey (U.S. Senator)
A symmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. – Alan Dershowitz
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. – Yassar Arafat
Anyone who ever looked into the glazed eyes of a dying soldier on the battlefield will thinkhard before starting a war. – Otto Von Bismarck
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! – Nikita Krushchev
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“I leave you peace: I give you my peace. I do not give it the way the world gives it. Do not let your hearts be troubled or let them shrink out of fear.” – Jesus Christ – John 14:27 – Apostle John writer – HOLY SCRIPTURES
No country can really be prepared for modern warfare unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. – Aldous Huxley
Pontius Pilate (Frank Thring) to Judah Ben Hur (Charlton Heston) after the chariot race in which Judah’s enemy has died: “Messala is dead. What he did has had its way with him.” Judah: “The deed was not Messala’s. I knew him well, before the cruelty of Rome spread in his blood. Rome destroyed Messala, as surely as Rome destroyed my family.” Pilate: “Where there is greatness, whether great government or power, even great feeling or compassion, error is also great. We progress and mature by fault. “ – BEN HUR – Karl Tunberg (plus collaboraters) – 1959
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
It’s angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It’s disgusting, it really is, because it is a fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They are not effective in any other real way. They’ve enough weapons for war. – Angelina Jolie
I would rather be torn to shreds than to be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein
What was CIVIL in the War Between the States anyway? – Gary Pulliam
A just war is hospitable to every self-disception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. – Alexander Cockburn (American journalist)
They wrote in the old days that it was sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing: that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. – Agatha Christie
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be kept by understanding. – Albert Einstein
I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on friend and foe have rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. – Gen. Douglas MacArthur
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. – Jeannette Rankin (Politician)
Ben M’Hidi: “It’s hard to start a revolution. Even harder to continue it. And hardest of all to win it. But, it’s only afterwards, when we have won, that’s when the true difficulties begin.” – THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS – Franco Solinas / Gillo Portecorvo – 1966
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“And all those gathered here will know that it is not with the sword or the spear that Jehovah saves, for the battle belongs to Jehovah, and he will give all of you into our hand.” – David to his army against the Philistines – 1 Sam. 17:47 – Writer Samuel – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Yesterday, December 7,1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air force of the empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt (Public declaration of war in the Pacific)
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, a positive crime for the statesman. – George Santanyana (Spanish American philosopher)
General Mereau (George MacCready): “There’s skim milk in their veins instead of blood.” Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas, very angry): “It’s the redde Gen. Mereau, infuriated, threatening his own troops: “If those little sweethearts won’t fear German bullets, they’ll fear French ones!”– PATHS OF GLORY– Stanley Kubrick / Jim Thompson / Calder Willingham – 1957
Cry Havoc! And let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above with certain men, groaning for burial. – William Shakespeare
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which ennoble its citizens to live, but the things which ennoble it to make war. Petro is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. – Simone Weil (French female philosopher)
War is fear cloaked in courage. – General William Westmorland
The directions in which society is moving have become infinitely more complex, and for many of us the dilemmas are terrifying. What guidance can professional historians offer to confused people today? Not very much, it seems. – Pardon E. Tillinghast (Historian)
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace. – Danny Glover
Insurrection by means of guerilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desiring of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invisible, indestructible. – Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian political revolutionary)
We are being confronted by something so outside our collective experience that we don’t really see it, even when the evidence is overwhelming. For us, that something is a blitz of enormous biological and physical alterations in the world that has been sustaining us. – Ed Ayres – A GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD
War is hell! – Everybody
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war, I don’t think there would be war. – Lily Tomlin
Commander Shears (William Holden): “You make me sick with your heroics! There’s a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills, they all go together, don’t they? And with you it’s just one thing or the other, destroy the bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Colonel Nicolson are two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules – when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!...I’m not going to leave you here to die, Warden, because I don’t care about your bridge and don’t care about your rules. If we go on, we go on together!” – BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI – C. Foreman / M. Wilson – 1957
Collossus: “We can co-exist, but only on my terms. You will say you love your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you will lose is your emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.”–COLLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT – James Bridges – 1970
“They never taught us really useful things like how to light a cigarette in the wind, or make a fire out of wet wood, or bayonet a man in the belly instead of in the ribs where it gets jammed.” – Albert Kropp, (William Bakewell) on leave to his former school class. – ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Maxwell Anderson / George Abbott – 1930
