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War Quotes by Albert Einstein
- War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
- In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security…
- The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is…
- How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
- A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
- Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
- With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only…
- [There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all…
- To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
- My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
- Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
- To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation…
- The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on…
- War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.…
- We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.
- I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons…
- The next world war will be fought with stones.
- I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
- Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
- You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
More War Quotes
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov