Benefits Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . .…

— Abraham Lincoln

War alone, however anathema it may seem on principle to the pacifist contingent, can secure a reprieve for the tortured Iraqi people and is…

— Norah Vincent

Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely.

— Peter Maurer

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

— Thomas Jefferson

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy...

— Haile Selassie

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for…

— Omar N. Bradley

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and…

— Louis Finkelstein

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in…

— Ernst Junger

In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents,…

— Jimmy Carter

“If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace,…

— Eden Phillpotts