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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war."

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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
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"I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done."

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Lovell Rousseau Philosopher
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"Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S."

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick"

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Pam Brown Poet
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"Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
War

"The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
War

"Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
War

"We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
War

"We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?"

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