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War

Quotations from the Wayside

The point is not to make war humane; the point is to make it impossible.
ANONYMOUS

War does not determine who is right—only who is left.
ANONYMOUS

Many things are worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
ALBERT CAMUS

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
NORMAN COUSINS

All wars are civil wars since all men are brothers.
WILL DURANT

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
ECCLESIASTES 9:18

To prevent war, all nations can unite without sacrifice of principle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

I will choose for heart, for spirit, but never will I choose for blood.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
ISAIAH 2:4

War is fought over land that does not care, and issues that are forgotten.
ROBERT F. KAUFMANN

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful
tomorrows.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

To the eyes of reason war is the total eclipse of
meaning.
ALAN MCGLASHAN

I must fight ’till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
MARIANNE MOORE

A bad peace is better than a good war.
RUSSIAN PROVERB

More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people.
HARRY SCHOLEFIELD

It is the death of love that evokes the love of death.
THORNTON WILDER

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