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“Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.”
Dora Russell (1894–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.”
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
“Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one — or take equivalent action, I suppose.”
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Red Rabbit (2002)
“At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1918)
“Question: What about a tax to fund the war in Afghanistan? Ron Paul: Oh no... We don't need any of those wars... You don't raise taxes, that will only encourage them, what we need is to take all this money away from them, and say, bring the troops home...”
Ron Paul (born 1935) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Washington Journal, C-Span, December 3, 2009
“As for hatred of a tyrant, that is a more human sentiment which has full play in time of war, when force and the mob are one. Emperors must be mad fools to decide on declaring wars which substitute an armed nation for their Praetorian Guards. That idiocy accomplished, despotism of course produces revolution until terrorism leads to the inevitable reaction.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear war the first blow may be the decisive one and render null and void years of work and billions spent on creation of an anti-missile system.”
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is a war,” Leamas replied. “It’s graphic and unpleasant because it’s fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it’s nothing, nothing at all besides other wars—the last or the next.”
John le Carré (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.”
L. Neil Smith (1946–2021) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Empire of Lies" Presented to the Libertarian Party of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 15 June 2003.
“It was the wise all-seeing soul Who counselled neither war nor peace: 'Only be thou thyself that goal In which the wars of time shall cease.'”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To come to this war: despite the known disposition of the actors in a struggle to overrate its importance, and when it is over to return to their admiration of earlier events, yet an examination of the facts will show that it was much greater than the wars which preceded it.”
Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Following the War of 1812, the young United States had no further need for Indian allies against the British, and as a result the fortunes of the Indians declined rapidly. By 1848, twelve new states had been carved out of the Indian's lands, two major and minor Indian wars had been fought, and group after group of Indians had been herded westward, on forced marches, across the Mississippi River.”
Peter Farb (1929–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humankind too often cooks up an excuse to start war instead of making peace. Rather than developing better strategies to win wars, we should focus on better recipes to attain peace.”
Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What interests me in history is how those periods influenced the present. In Sex Wars, one of the alarming aspects is that in the period after the Civil War they were dealing with the same problems and issues we are dealing with today: the rights of women and minorities, immigration, abortion, contraception, income inequality, prison reform, election manipulation.”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Struggles between nations and struggles between classes we shall surely have during the coming decades. All indications point to further wars between nations. The struggle between capital and labor is daily growing in intensity. ...It may be that we shall witness scenes surpassing in horror even those of the recent war.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we’re fighting now?”
Tad Williams (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let’s not have any more wars to end all war.”
William Feather (1889–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's nothing much I can tell you about this war. It's like all wars, I suppose. The undertakers are winning it. Oh, the politicians will talk a lot about the "glory" of it, and the old men'll talk about the "need" of it—the soldiers, they just want to go home.”
James Lee Barrett (1929–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want. And the remarkable thing is this: the wars have only encouraged demand, trade has actually boomed in these difficult years. The ships are full, everyone is happy. War and politics are irrelevant, unless the great flow of trade is disturbed.”
Nick Drake (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No wars are unintended or 'accidental'. What is often unintended is the length and bloodiness of the war.”
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since every nation tends to believe that each of its past wars was fought in self-defence, a drawn war is more likely to be remembered as a victory.”
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Pentagon takes over half the US federal discretionary budget. If we spend billions on a Green New Deal instead of wasting trillions on weapons & war, we'll make wars for oil obsolete - and make the world a safer place for all future generations of life on Earth. #GreenNewDeal”
Jill Stein (born 1950) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter Post (19 Dec 2018)]
“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 (born 1959) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: HISTORY (29 March 2003)
“In sum, theoretical and empirical research establishes that democratic civil liberties and political rights promote nonviolence and is a path to a warless world. The clearest evidence of this is that there has never been a war between well-established democracies, while numerous wars have occurred between all other political systems;…”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Increasing freedom in the world decreases the death toll of its wars. Surely, whatever reduces and then finally ends the scourge of war in our history, without causing a greater evil, must be the greatest moral good. And this is freedom.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the vote, you'll change nothing in this country. Nothing, absolutely nothing. We'll only get change, unfortunately, when we go into a civil war here someday and do a work the military regime didn't do, killing as much as thirty thousand people, starting with FHC. It's all right if some innocent people die. Innocent people die in many wars.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) at the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 Octob…
“I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.”
Zainab Salbi (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are missing stories of women who are literally keeping life going in the midst of wars. Do you know -- do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life going? And the ones who are keeping that life are women.”
Zainab Salbi (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most progressives are not as outspoken against U.S. military interventions or what she (Tulsi Gabbard) refers to as “regime change wars.” She witnessed the impact of regime change on the people of Iraq, as well as U.S. troops, and that inspired her to talk more about the human cost of war and challenge the military industrial-complex.”
Kevin Gosztola (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see these soldiers, people coming back from the wars, and they are so wounded. They are so hurt from what they have experienced and the actions which they have made in the world. And now there is work to be done in pulling our country together and the world together. That's the work that comes after a war. It's how to make peace and how to make the world whole again. (2007)”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Documented policies of genocide on the part of US administrations can be identified in at least four distinct periods: the Jacksonian era of forced removal; the California gold rush in Northern California; the post-Civil War era of the so-called Indian wars in the Great Plains; and the 1950s termination period”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War is a crime against the poor civilians of Iran, Iraq, and the whole Middle East region, who pay for U.S. wars with the destruction of their lives, their health, their homes and their country’s environment. It’s a crime against the poor of the U.S. as well who pay with their tax dollars going to the Pentagon instead of to jobs, health care and a green new deal.”
William Barber II (born 1963) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter Asking the United Nations to Hold Trump/U.S. Accountable for War Crimes (8 Jan 2020)
“We are against the world war being fomented by the superpowers and also against all the local wars of aggression which they instigate or back.”
Hu Yaobang (1915–1989) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taiwan Communique and Separation of Powers: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, pp. 199 (1983)
“In the 21st century, there is a tendency to blur the distinction between the state of war and peace. Wars are no longer declared, and once they have begun, they do not proceed according to the pattern we are accustomed to.”
Valery Gerasimov (born 1955) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ценность науки в предвидении" (26 February 2013)
“I am a military man. It is usually believed that a military man means that there must be a war. But I have been in many wars. And I think that that humanity in general, in principle, should not be engaged in collisions and dismantling these collisions, but should be engaged in saving our planet, our home where we live. no one will encroach, no one will destroy. We need to think about it.”
Valentin Varennikov (1923–2009) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ушёл из жизни Герой Советского Союза, генерал армии Валентин Варенников" (6 May 2009)
“I’m thinking a lot about the fraught state of our world including the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza. I’ve just started reading The Ukraine by writer Artem Chapeye, who is currently fighting for his country, as well as The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. I’m also re-reading David Grossman’s To the End of the Land.”
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We remind you that Russia has never attacked anyone throughout its history. And Russia, which has survived so many wars, is the last country in Europe that even wants to utter the word ‘war.’”
Dmitry Peskov (born 1967) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russian spokesman’s statement ignores centuries of Russian attacks", 21 February 2022
“The Civil War, like most wars, was a bad time for religious skeptics.”
Susan Jacoby (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am more concerned with what is happening to my people in my country than war. We have lived through two wars and seen their promises turn to bitter ashes.”
Charlotta Bass (1874–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some people think it’s strange that I work for peace, because I’m in the army. But others are glad. They say to me, “You waged war, and now you are waging peace!” I know how terrible wars can be. When I joined the army, I joined for a purpose — to fight for my rights, the rights of my children, and the rights of all children. Through fighting, we did achieve those rights…”
Rose Kabuye (born 1961) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://bangambiki.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/rose-kabuye/?
“The third world war is unlikely to erupt in the next few decades. Peace, cooperation and development is a major trend reflecting the keen desire of many countries. However, local wars, armed conflicts, racial and religious clashes, arms race, activities of interference and subversion, terrorism and socio-economic crises will possibly occur in many places in an even more complicated manner.”
Lê Khả Phiêu (1931–2020) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: General Secretary Speech After 11th Plenum" (17 January 2001)
“Do you think Obama's been judged by any rational standards? Has Guantanamo closed? Is a war over? Is anyone paying any attention to Iraq? Is he seriously talking about going into Syria? We are not doing so well in the 80 wars we are in right now, what the hell does he want to go into another one for?”
Seymour Hersh (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment. ("The Biological Premises of Our Sad Earth-Speck")”
Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is one moral I am comfortable drawing: When the leaders who direct wars and the men who wield the weapons of war become convinced that their actions align perfectly with the divine, we are inviting unthinkable atrocities. It’s a big enough lesson that putting it into words verges on the maudlin. But, unfortunately, it’s a lesson that is relevant for our world.”
Jay Rubenstein (born 1967) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2014)
“Today, what Asia Pacific needs are big pies of open and inclusive cooperation, not smoke leaks[?] that are self-serving and exclusive. We must never forget the catastrophes inflict by the two World Wars and the Cold War. And we must never allow such tragedies to happen again.”
Li Shangfu (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Number three. Don't use a particle accelerator as a death ray. When I was putting together this lecture I asked... my very esteemed colleagues, "Has anyone ever tried to develop an accelerator as a weapon?" And they said, "Oh mumble, mumble cold war, space, Star Wars something or other... No" That was their conclusion... They were wrong.”
Suzie Sheehy (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moving on in time, if you look at today’s world, faith, religion, race, as well as due to territorial rights and various other reasons, among countries in mutual relationships, there are still wars or ethnic disputes. It is not rare that the gods who are supposed to save people’s hearts have ignited the flames of war.”
Kazuki Takahashi (1961–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source