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Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.
Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.
This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.
There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.