Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jeanette Rankin

American Feminist and Politician

"The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life."

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

"What one decides to do in a crisis depends upon one’s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn’t any philosophy in a crisis, others make the decision."

"There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense."

"War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. "