Quote by Albert Einstein

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that…

— Albert Einstein

“an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—”

— John Jakes

“Politics," replied my uncle, "military politics, just futile display of pyrotechnics to amuse the populace and give heroically inclined young men a chance to…

— Milo Hastings

“There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons…

— Christopher Hawke

“Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains and smiling…

— Arthur Mathews

“Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Men are sheep. Which is why armies and wars are possible. They die victims of their stupid docility.”

— Gabriel Chevallier

“I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first…

— Ernest Hemingway

In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest,…

— Emma Goldman

“For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one…

— Joss Sheldon

“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they…

— Stephen King