If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.
I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
What is more immoral than war?
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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