"War is a defeat for humanity."

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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."

Stephen King, American Author

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"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare."

Charles Krauthammer, American Journalist

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"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

War, Living, World, World war

"It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."

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"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."

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"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

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"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"

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"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

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"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."

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"The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message."

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"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."

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"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."

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"Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard."

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