A collection of insightful quotes from some of the world's most
influential......
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the
oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious." -General
Smedley Butler
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
-Donald Rumsfeld
"Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...
which equates the national honor with military victory." -Colonel James A.
Donovan, Marine Corps
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -
kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave
national emergency." -General Douglas MacArthur
"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be
hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business." -Albert
Einstein
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." -Eleanor
Roosevelt
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor..." -Julius Caesar
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed
classes think they are going to profit from it." -George Orwell
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in
the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
-General Omar N. Bradley
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these
days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is
nothing but an act of murder." -Albert Einstein
"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me; let there be peace on
earth, the peace that was meant to be." — Sy Miller
"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length." — Robert Frost
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize
them, but that they seize us." — Ashley Montagu
"Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you
can catch souls." — Mother Teresa
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism.
The techniques have been honed to a high art in the U.S. and elsewhere,
far beyond anything that Orwell dreamed of."
-- Noam Chomski
