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Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL
To those to whom war is necessary it is just.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method for settling international disputes.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind-that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty.
Evil | Government | Liberty | Mankind | Religion | Thinking | War | Wisdom | Government |
Violence and war never solve problems; they only make them more acute. They create new dilemmas and new paradoxes.
Lester Pearson, fully Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Louis N. Parker, fully Louis Napoleon Parker
War is never a solution - war is an aggravation.
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
Atomic bomb | Future | War | Wisdom |