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Benjamin Franklin -

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."

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Napoleon Bonaparte -

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

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Mahatma Gandhi -

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

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Barack Obama -

"I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."

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Martin Luther King Jr. -

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

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Albert Einstein -

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

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Winston Churchill - "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

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John F. Kennedy -

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

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George Orwell -

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

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Oscar Wilde - "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."

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Ernest Hemingway -

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

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Malcolm X -

"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down."

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Thomas Edison -

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

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Ronald Reagan -

"History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

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Henry Ford -

"Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard."

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Stephen King -

"Fighting for peace, is like f*****g for chastity."

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Haile Selassie -

"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war."

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Sun Tzu -

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

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Jimmy Carter - "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."

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Dwight D. Eisenhower -

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

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G.K. Chesterton -

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

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John Steinbeck -

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

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Jean-Paul Sartre -

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

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Mao Zedong -

"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war."

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Mark Twain -

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

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Aristotle -

"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."

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George S. Patton -

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

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Margaret Atwood -

"War is what happens when language fails."

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George Santayana -

"Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

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See also: The stupidest excuses for war in history

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