QUOTES OF THE DAY - COMING WAR EDITION

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
― Albert Camus

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995

“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
― Bertrand Russell

“When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Diable Et Le Bon Dieu

“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