"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

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"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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"War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides."

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"War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror."

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"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."

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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."

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"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."

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"Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

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"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment."

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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."

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"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."

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"Nothing ever goes away."

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"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."

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"The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists."

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"Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment."

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"As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor."

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