November 22, 2005

  • (quotes from http://quotes.prolix.nu/War/)


    "Never has there been a good war or a bad peace." ---Benjamin Franklin


    "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a THEFT from those who HUNGER AND ARE NOT FED, those who are COLD AND NOT CLOTHED." ---Dwight D. Eisenhower


    "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a CRIME." ---Ernest Hemingway


    "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.  But in modern war, there is NOTHING sweet nor fitting in your dying.  You will die like a DOG for NO GOOD REASON." ---Ernest Hemingway


    "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 and DEMOCRACY?" --- Gandhi


    "Join the army, meet interesting people, KILL them." ---graffiti


    "Naturally, the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the LEADERS of a country who determine the policy. . . the people call ALWAYS be brought to do the bidding of the leaders.  THAT IS EASY.  All you have to do is to tell them they are being ATTACKED, and DENOUNCE THE PACIFISTS for lack of PATRIOTISM and exposing the country to DANGER.  IT WORKS THE SAME IN EVERY COUNTRY." ---Hermann Goering


    "VIOLENCE IS THE FIRST REFUGE OF THE INCOMPETENT." ---Isaac Asimov


    "The battle was over.  Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few yards of useless mud." ---John Fowles


    "'Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'  And anything worth dying for,' answered the old man, 'is certainly worth living for.'" ---Joseph Heller


    "Anyone who truly wants to go to war, has NEVER TRULY BEEN THERE BEFORE!" ---Larry Reeves


    ". . . and they all want the same thing - not to lie UNDER the earth, but to WALK UPON IT - without crutches." ---Peter Weiss


    PEOPLE WILL NOT WELCOME LIBERATION AT THE POINT OF A GUN