peace

Under the clouds of war

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

former Republican President of the USA

Peace is the way

There is no way to peace, peace is the way

— A.J. Muste

Prepare for and prevent war

You cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war.

— Albert Einstein

Nuclear war

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

— Ted Turner

To bring peace among brothers

When the star in the sky is gone,
When the Kings and Princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks
The real work of Christmas begins.

To find the lost
To heal the broken
To feed the hungry
To release the prisoners
To rebuild the nations
To bring peace among brothers
To make music in the heart.

— Nineteenth Century Quaker Benediction Traditionally Spoken at Christmas

The loud little handful

The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.'

— Mark Twain

"The Mysterious Stranger," 1910

STRANGE GAME

STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.

— Joshua

the computer simulation in War Games after trying to find a way to "win" at nuclear war

There are no atheists in foxholes

“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.

— James Morrow

Peace on earth

  • "All I want is peace on earth, good will toward men."
  • "We're the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing!"
— from the movie Sneakers

Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all.

— David J. Constable
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