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On War

«Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.»
«Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.»
«The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.»
«I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.»
«I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.»
«To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder»
«I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.?What message does that send our troops??What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?»
«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
«The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.»
«This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.»