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- Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
- U Thant
- As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- 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 (1469 - 1527)
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.
- Eugene V. Debs
- To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.
- Senator Homer T. Bone
- War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
- General Smedley Butler
- Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
- Cardinal John Newman
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