Quotable Quotes
I rather enjoy quotes. Listed below, are some sent to my by V, my surrogate older sister.
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. � Abraham Lincoln
All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; so why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere? � Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has never truly been there before! � Kosovar
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 not clothed. � Benjamin Franklin
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us � avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride, if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. � Petrarch
Help your local police � beat yourself up. - Graffiti
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. �Ronald Wilson Reagan
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. � Abba Eban
How this feels is; I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished. - Chuck Palahniuk
How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the theatre upon which all our mighty designs, all our navigations, and all our wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of reflection, for those kings and princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many people, only to flatter their ambition in being masters of some pitiful corner of this small spot. � John Stuart Mill
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. � Albert Einstein
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. - Plato
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. � General William Westmoreland
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. � Dwight D. Eishenhower
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. � Neville Chamberlain
Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have. � Issac Asimov
Join the army, meet interesting people, kill them. � George McGovern
Lee Harvey Oswald, shooting from the top floor of the Book Depository was able to take 3 shots from an old Italian bolt-action rifle. From a distance of over 258 feet and shooting at a moving target he was able to score 2 hits including a headshot. Now does anybody know where he learned to shoot like this? In the Marine Corps ladies! � Ernest Hemmingway
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." -- Graffiti on Ministry of Defense building, London
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. � Herbert Hoover
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace. - Apocalypse Now
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. � Emperor Hirohito
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. � Herbert Hoover
Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Neither side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under the Earth, but to walk upon it - without crutches. � Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only the dead have seen the end of war. � Peter Weiss
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. � Larry Reeves
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. � General George Patton
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. � Albert Einstein
The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate. � William Gibson
There isn�t much justice in the world. Perhaps that�s why it�s so satisfying to occasionally make some. � Martian Manhunger, �The Tyranny Gun!�, Justice League Task Force #1 by David Michelinie
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. � Ernest Hemingway
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. � Anne O�Hare McCormick
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. � Ghandi
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. � Homer, The Illiad
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. � Dwight D. Eisenhower
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. � Graffiti on the Ninth Precinct police station, New York
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 the holy name of liberty and democracy? � Full Metal Jacket
You can�t say civilization isn�t advancing in every war, they kill you in a new way. � Will Rogers
You know the real meaning of PEACE only if you have been through the war. -Jack Handey
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the Earth! � Hermann Goering