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“There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.”— Noam Chomsky
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“What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.”— Dennis Miller
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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”— John Paul Jones
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“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”— Ulysses S. Grant
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“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”— John Adams
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“To secure peace is to prepare for war.”— Karl Von Clausewitz
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“Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.”— Adam Schiff
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“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.”— Katherine Dunn
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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.”— Leon Trotsky
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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”— Kin Hubbard
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“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”— Chuck Palahniuk
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“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”— Calvin Coolidge
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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”— Jimmy Carter
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“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”— Virginia Woolf
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“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.”— Maya Lin
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“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”— George W. Bush
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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”— Stephen King
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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.”— Charles Wilson
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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”— Omar N. Bradley
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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”— Niccolo Machiavelli
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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”— Douglas MacArthur
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“I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.”— Tony Blair
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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”— Maria Montessori
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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.”— Duke of Wellington