Challenges Quote by Widad Akrawi

Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral…

— Fethullah Gulen

War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which…

— Philip Bobbitt

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over…

— Wangari Maathai

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only…

— Peter Maurer

“societies confronted with specific environmental circumstances-scarcity or abundance-have a higher risk of being affected by violent conflicts.”

— Philippe Le Billion

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives…

— Jacque Fresco

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant…

— Karl Marx

Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war…

— Rosalie Bertell

Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all…

— Jody Williams

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

— Cyril Connolly

War the only thing that cleanses the nation

— Lara Flores