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)
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.(Georges Clemenceau)
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.(Jimmy Carter)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?(Mahatma Gandhi)
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.(Will Rogers)
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? (Blaise Pascal)
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. (Croesus)
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. (David Friedman)
July, 20, 2006 9:36 PM