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Abraham Flexner
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Albert Einstein
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.
Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Aldous Huxley
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
Ambrose Bierce
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
Andr? Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
ar is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
Arthur Ponsonby, Falsehood in Wartime, 1928
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
Author Unknown
Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them.
Author Unknown
All the arms we need are for hugging.
Author Unknown
Draft beer; not people.
Author Unknown
What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.
Author Unknown
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
Benjamin Disraeli
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
 
 
 
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