Apropros quotes, given the world situation right now:

[marmar]

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
- Jeanette Winterson

Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate.
- Thomas della Peruta

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
- Phillip Caputo

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
- Noam Chomsky

[AnOhioan]

1. I like this one...

... in any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.


- Pearl S. Buck

[marmar]

2. That is a good one...

I'll add it to my save-get string... :)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. How about ....

[marmar]

4. To the point...

And oh so true.

[existentialist]

5. Against War

"Against War: it makes the victor brutal and stupid, the vanquished embittered and malignant."
Frederich Nietzsche

[Rowdyboy]

6. Its a real stretch but I love the quote and it is military-related...

Seargeant Leonard Matlovich...."When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."

~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

[marmar]

8. That one...

really puts perspective on how screwed up militarythink is. Profound in its simplicity.

[Bluerthanblue]

7. a few more-

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
~Nietzsche

"Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor."

~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"


"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."

~Mahatma Gandhi


"War remains the decisive human failure."

~John Kenneth Galbraith

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."

~Sir Peter Ustinov

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
~John F. Kennedy

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
~Ernest Hemingway

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
~Plato