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"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas." Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.3076923076923075 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever." Thomas Edison 4.285714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic." Albert Einstein 4.285714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it." Alexis de Tocqueville 4.285714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." Thomas Jefferson 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Wars are caused by undefended wealth." Ernest Hemingway 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk." Martin Luther King Jr. 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace." Helen Keller 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." Douglas MacArthur 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge." Mikhail Bakunin 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A bad peace is even worse than war." Tacitus 4.181818181818182 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." Dwight Eisenhower 4.166666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack." Napoleon Bonaparte 4.166666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack." Adolf Hitler 4.148148148148148 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." Dwight Eisenhower 4.142857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I would rather have peace in the world than be President." Harry Truman 4.142857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula." George Patton 4.142857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price." Benjamin Franklin 4.133333333333334 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals." Colman McCarthy 4.125 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun." Mao Zedong 4.111111111111111 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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