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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (9310)2/17/2003 1:31:58 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Respond to of 25898
 
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (9310)2/17/2003 1:34:22 PM
From: Sojourner Smith  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 25898
 
This is what I find interesting.
People are against war on moral grounds, but I can't bear to see people suffer under dictators and racists.