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Letter "W" » War
«Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
benevolence, disposition, state of mind
«One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies»
Author: Bruce Kent
| About:
Cannibalism,
War
| Keywords:
barbaric, cannibalism, coping, coping with, deficiencies, diet, resolving
«Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded»
Author: Walter Lippman
(Editor, Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
succeeded, succeeding, The Victors, vanquished, victors
«Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.»
Author: Yves Montand
| About:
War
«One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
disastrous, horrible, settles
«People always make war when they say they love peace»
«Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.»
«Peace never respects borders»
«One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
battlefield, casualties, Great Society, in Vietnam, shoot down, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Conscience,
Fidelity,
Heroism,
Labor,
Peace,
Purity,
Sacrifice,
Truth,
War
| Keywords:
fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity
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