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• Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

  Richard E. Byrd

  War, Trying, Would Be

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• It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Hate, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Self, Blood

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 17, 2014

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• No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, War, People

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Believe, People

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• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Peace, Military, War

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• Say it isn't true
  That there always has been and always will be war
  Say it isn't true
  And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for
  Say it isn't true
  There always has been and always will be war

  Jackson Browne

  War, Men, Fine Things

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• We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Military, War, Party

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• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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• War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

  Charles Sumner

  Crush, War, Men

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• There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Jobs, War

  "Gov. Nikki Haley in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2012.

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• We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

  Bill Whittle

  Philosophy, War, Fighting

  "History". Post by Bill Whittle in blog ejectejecteject.com, March 29, 2003.

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• This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

  Winston Churchill

  War, Ambition, Names

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

  Thornton Wilder

  Peace, War, Thinking

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.

  Milan Kundera

  War, Fighting, Years

  "Immortality". Book by Milan Kundera, 1990.

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• And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.

  Jimi Hendrix

  War, Years, Games

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• I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

  Claudia Christian

  War, People, Wish

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• I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.

  Thom Yorke

  War, Blow, President

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• No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

  James Mattis

  War, Thinking, Enemy

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• If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

  Carrie Snow

  War, Women, Would Be

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• Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

  Silius Italicus

  War, Men, Triumph

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

  Augusta Stowe-Gullen

  War, Voice, Forever

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• Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Survival, Enemy

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

  Walter Russell

  Peace, War, Men

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