#wars

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#debts #every #generation #goes #incumbent

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#failure #guns #human #rockets #symbols

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#annihilation #broken #chain #come #dark

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#carving #loudly #out #past #peaceful

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#out #peaceful #poor #tomorrows #wars

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#adds #big #both #daily #daily work

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#birth #birth control #control #country #diamonds

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#died #how #many #millions #more

All government wars are unjust. ↗

— Murray Rothbard

#unjust #wars

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#i #i think #leads #national #nothing