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War Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
- Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
- Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
- The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an…
- Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The…
- Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age…
- An organism at war with itself is doomed.
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- 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
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood