Quotes to ponder as we all search for wisdom along the way to war :
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
Margaret Mead
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the pursuit of force.
Norman Cousins
To be persuasive, we must be believable,/To be believable, we must be credible,/To be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
Alfred North Whitehead
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
Sydney J. Harris 1986
It is easier to lead men to combat and to stir up their passions than to temper them and urge them to the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide
It is seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
Washington Irving
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
Max Lerner
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
Henry Miller
War is both the product of an earlier corruption and a producer of new corruptions.
Lewis Mumford
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
Neitzche
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland 1914
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion-it is an evil government.
Eric Hoffer (1954) |
