War(77)

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Bertrand Russell

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"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

"The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it."
Louis Simpson

"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"
Benjamin Spock

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin

"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace."
Charles Sumner

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
Henry David Thoreau