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" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

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" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "

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" 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

" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "

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" War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. "

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" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "

George McGovern

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. "

" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "

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" To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. "

" We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it. "

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" Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. "

" Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. "

" Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.' "

" No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. "

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" When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. "

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" 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. "

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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" As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. "

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" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "

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