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Stop the War – Painting triptych by Jacqueline Hammond. Work in progress
When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin’s theory of Evolution.
~Dale S. Mugford
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
~Ernie Pyle
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
~General Omar N. Bradley
Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism…which equates the national honor with military victory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~George McGovern
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~George Orwell
About the quote: This quote comes from “Homage to Catalonia,” Orwell’s 1936 eyewitness account of the Spanish Civil War.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable
~George Orwell
About the quote: from his ‘Politics and the English Language.’
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
~Georges Clemenceau
It is far easier to make war than peace.
~Georges Clemenceau
“My country right or wrong” is like saying, “My mother drunk or sober.”
~G. K. Chesterton
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
~Goethe
There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
~Golda Meir
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
~Gregory Bateson
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
~Havelock Ellis
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.
~Herodotus
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
~James Wolcott
About the quote: in his article “From Fear to Eternity,” Vanity Fair, March 2005
