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- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.
- Demophilus
- Sweet is war to those who know it not.
- Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC)
- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
- Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
- Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
- William Punshon
- Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
- Beware the man of one book.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
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