War
"If I had a farm in Vietnam and a home of hell, I'd sell my farm and go home."
-as taken from a soldier's ZippoŽ lighter in the Vietnam War
"We came because
We believe
We leave because
We are disallusioned
We come back because
We are lost
We die because
We are committed."
-as taken from a soldier's ZippoŽ lighter in the Vietnam War
"We are the unwilling
Led by the unqualified
Doing the unneccessary
For the ungrateful."
-as taken from a soldier's ZippoŽ lighter in the Vietnam War
"You only live twice, Once when you're born and once when you've looked death in the face."
-as taken from a soldier's ZippoŽ lighter in the Vietnam War
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for I'm the evilest son of a bitch in the valley."
-as taken from a soldier's ZippoŽ lighter in the Vietnam War
"If you haven't been there shut the fuck up."
-as taken from a soldier's ZippoŽ lighter in the Vietnam war
"An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Ghandi
"...and I want you to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the time before the war [World War II] , but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy looks forward to, and with pleasure feels he is a part of- something he can work and fight for."
-Kim Malthe-Bruun
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
-Paul Rodriguez
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
-Abigail Van Buren
"Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people-and kill them."
-Pacifist reply to army recruitment poster
"Make love, not war."
-Pacifist slogan
"Better Red than dead."
-Pacifist slogan
"War is the science of destruction."
-John Abbott
"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people."
-Gerome Gragni and James Rado(1967)
"You can't say civilization don't advance-for every war they kill you a new way."
-Will Rogers
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody'll come."
-Carl Sandburrg
"And all those guys who died all five million or seven million or ten million who went out and died to make the world safe for words without
meaning how did they feel about it just before they died? ...So did all
those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and
the safety of the home and stars and stripes forever? You're goddam right they didn't."
-Dalton Trumbo in Johnny Got His Gun
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-JFK
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-Betty Shabazz
"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy
Scouts have adult supervision."
-Blake Clark
"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
-George Orwell
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
-Groucho Marx
"The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling."
-Walter Goodman
"If you're not angry, then you're just stupid and you don't care; how else can you react when you know something's so unfair, when the men of the hour can kill half the world in war, make them slaves to a superpower and then let them die poor."
-Ani DiFranco
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then, they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up."
-Pastor Martin Niemoller
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
"War is hell."
-William Tecumseh Sherman
"Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare."
-Charles H. Maskins
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
-Benjamin Franklin
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed
and degrated state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that
nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal
safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-Unknown
"The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between its fighters and its thinkers is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."
-Sir William Francis Butler
"war.. is it madness or reality or pure insanity that makes people
want to fight when neither is right, but both of them want to be?"
-Unknown
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