[John] Dalton's records, caref...

[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester.  It is not only the living who are killed in war.

~Isaac Asimov~

You're an old-timer if you can...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

~Franklin P. Jones, referring to the atomic bomb~

You cannot prevent and prepare...

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

~Albert Einstein~

You can't say civilization don...

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929~

You can no more win a war than...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

~Jeanette Rankin~

You are not going to get peace...

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men.  The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

~David Lloyd George~

World War II was the last gove...

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

~George Will~

Will... the threat of common e...

Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979~

Why don't presidents fight the...

Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?

~Serj Tankian~

Why do we kill people who are ...

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

~Holly Near~

Where is the indignation about...

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

~Norman Cousins~

When the rich wage war, it's t...

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

~Jean-Paul Sartre~

When after many battles past, ...

When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

~Francis Moore~

What this planet needs is more...

What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.

~Author Unknown~

What the hell difference does ...

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

~Brendan Behan~

What millions died - that Caes...

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

~Thomas Campbell~

What is absurd and monstrous a...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

~Aldous Huxley~

What distinguishes war is, not...

What distinguishes war is, not that man is slain, but that he is slain, spoiled, crushed by the cruelty, the injustice, the treachery, the murderous hand of man.

~William Ellery Channing~

What a cruel thing is war:&#16...

What a cruel thing is war:  to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864~

What a country calls its vital...

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

~Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960~