A mind at peace does not engender wars.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

— Eduardo Galeano

“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought…

— Hermann Hesse

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing…

— Mark Twain

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in…

— George Washington

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

— Stefan Halper

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

— Condoleezza Rice

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction

— George W. Bush

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution…

— Douglas MacArthur

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual…

— Douglas MacArthur

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

— Ronald Reagan