"War itself is the enemy of the human race."

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"War itself is the enemy of the human race."

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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

War, Violence, World

"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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"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates."

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"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."

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"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."

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"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."

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"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people."

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"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

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"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane."

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"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."

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"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children."

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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

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