"A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace."
- Albert Einstein.
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." - Abraham Lincoln.
"The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans."
- Hermann Hesse.
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." - George Washington.
"Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"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.
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out ... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man'-with his mouth." - Mark Twain.
"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace."
- Woodrow Wilson.
"... In any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle."
- Pearl S. Buck.
"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
- Mark Twain.
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
- John F. Kennedy.
"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed... we, too, will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battles or politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."
- John F. Kennedy.
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom."
- Andrew B. Law.
"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world."
- Lyndon Baines Johnson.
"When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?"
- Frank Borman, U.S. astronaut.
"The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used.... [B]y their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve."
- Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976.
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa.
"I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war."
- Pentagon official on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War.
"In war you have to kill to avoid being killed. We're all human beings - Chinese, Japanese, English - but war is about killing. Stupid war!... All those men going off, leaving their wives and children. Stupid - giving your life for nothing!"
- Japanese veteran of the war in China, caretaker at Yosenji temple, Obanazawa, Japan.
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
- Havelock Ellis.
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
- Thomas Jefferson.
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."
- General Omar Bradley.
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
- Abraham Flexner.
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
- John F. Kennedy.
"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
- General Omar Bradley.
"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies."
- Lester B. Pearson.
"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another."
- J. Martin Kohe.
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
- André Gide.
"If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States."
- Bill Gates.
"Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society."
- Frederick Moore Vinson.
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
- General William Tecumseh Sherman.
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
- H. G. Wells.
"Formerly, a nation that broke the peace did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives.... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory.... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world".
- Ellen Key.
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences."
- Harry S. Truman.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
- Voltaire.
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
- Lyndon Baines Johnson.
"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"
- Dr. Benjamin Spock.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein.
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
- Mohandas Gandhi.
"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 or democracy?"
- Mohandas Gandhi.
"War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure."
- Adrienne Rich.
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
- Herbert Hoover.
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
- David Friedman.
"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
- General Douglas MacArthur.
"War is not a true adventure. It is a mere ersatz. Where ties are established, where problems are set, where creation is stimulated-there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice."
- General Douglas MacArthur.
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
- Thomas Mann.
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed.... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace...."
- M. E. W. Sherwood.
"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."
- Napoleon Hill.
"Thanks to history books, I have realized that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realize that there is nothing stupid like war."
- Kamal Hassan.
"When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein.
"War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?"
- Guy de Maupassant.
"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?"
- Daniel Berrigan on burning draft cards during the Vietnam War.
An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war."
- Mark Twain.
"Why of course the people don't want war.... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
- Hermann Goering.
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. As the parent of armies, war encourages debts and taxes, the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended ... and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people."
- James Madison.
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mohandas Gandhi.
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
- Jean-Paul Sartre.
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
- James Madison.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
- Henri Nouwen.
"Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it."
- Anne O'Hare McCormick.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize (10 December 2002)
"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die, like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
- Alexander Berkman.
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
- Ernest Hemingway.
"War's a profanity, because let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can."
- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace"
- Benjamin Franklin.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it."
- Anne O'Hare McCormick.
"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace."
- James Thomson.
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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 are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
- General William Westmoreland.
"We're not made by God to mass kill one another ... and that's backed up by the Gospel. Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying."
- Father Philip Berrigan.
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
- Pope Pius VI.
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
- John F. Kennedy.
"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."
- Niccolo Machiavelli.
Behold, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." In the beginning, you were organized as One body, but when you became two, the illusion of separateness entered the physical plane. Now you are many, and this illusion abounds. I tell you the truth, when I say that in the beginning the One God created mortals male and female; they were One body, perfectly united and absolutely equal. Through the Fall came disparity, and under the Fall there will always be division and disharmony and inequity. Only when you are redeemed from the Fall will you become a perfect whole, accomplishing a single work.
He who takes up the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that evil can be overcome by evil, or violence by violence? The Way of Peace requires courage and patience, but it will prevail. In destruction there is no victory but for darkness. The power of victory is not force but Love. "Love your neighbor as yourself." You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
As light disperses darkness, so does Love swallow up hatred, and it is no more. The power of hate is strong, but Love conquers all. "God is Love." Pure Love is a flood which covers all things. Nothing can stand against it, for it flows from the Eternal Sea. That all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may be One as we are One, I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
"This is my command: Love each other." For Love cannot rebel, but seeks total unity and perfect peace.
"In me, all things become ONE." - Jesus Christ.
We are many Nations, Religions and People, but the Truth is we are all One. We are the generation of hope and we are the generation of Intelligence that will alter our reality with the light of our truth and we will create a better and safer world for all. We are the generation that is tired of our government's non-intelligent choices as they wage wars to solve our global problems, and we are the generation that will rise up out of the ashes of our histories past and create a New World where generations to come will live in peace and harmony with one another. We are the generation that will be remembered as the Beginning of the New Age of Peace and Unity.
Together as One Voice and One People we will end our global wars and live together as One Family. We are the Human Race and each single One of us is good and evil as One. We have come to the understanding that the only evil is our own self destructive natures and the absence of intelligence within our own human minds as we fight against our enemy. We are the generation of Intelligence that has learned from our past mistakes and we are the generation that has surrendered to our own worst enemy; "we have surrendered to ourselves." Together as One Family and One People we will create a New World and we will live together as One Species and One Race under the One God of Creation that is alive within us All.
We understand that life was a Journey of human growth and that our ultimate search was a search for Unity, Hope and Peace with One another. We are a species growing into maturity and we understand that we have to forgive our histories past for the repeated mistakes we made as we grew more intelligent and together as One. The time of separate nations, tribes and religions has come to an end and the New Future has begun not in the world, but within our minds. We are the generation that will not be destroyed by the non-intelligent mistakes of our past, and together as One we will shine brighter than our Sun as we illuminate our world with the Truth.
"We are many Nations, Religions and People United Together as One."
It is our Right; it is our Destiny, to become One!
- Jared Paolo Clement.
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