Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
War
We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
-Havelock Ellis
Tis better to have fought and lost than never to have fought at all.
-Arthur H. Clough
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
-Jeane Kirkpatrick
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
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violence in Peace and War"
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
-Jasper Fforde
"The Eyre Affair"
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.
-Martin H. Fischer
