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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity."

Children War Love
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
War

"Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict."

War Spiritual Evil
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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it."

Mean War Winning
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves."

War Desire Nature
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?"

Believe War Peace
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business."

War Peace Pieces
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place."

War Matter Realization
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Andrew Young Civil Rights Leader
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"What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset."

War America Slavery
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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children."

Children War Caring
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed."

War Eye Sadness
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War

"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers."

War Games Principles
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies."

People War Thoughtful
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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
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"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

War Civilization Losing
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Veronica Roth Author
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"So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says."

Thinking War Stupid
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