Peace War Quotes - Page 11

• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Violence, Action

  "The Question of Peace". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293, July–August 1915.

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• From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Names, People

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Men, Mind

  Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.81, Counterpoint Press

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• The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, War, Home

  "Fictional character: Faramir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• [Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

  Michael Bloomberg

  War, Kids, Health Education

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, People, Ends

  "Einstein on Peace".

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• There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, People, Presidential

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

  Norman Angell

  War, Men, Knowing

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Gun, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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• It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.

  James Madison

  War, Government, Order

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• Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

  Laini Taylor

  Respect, Peace, War

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