QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Henry Kissinger, Ludwig von Mises, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Wayne Dyer Pope John Paul II, Edmund Burke, Thomas Jefferson, H. L. Mencken, Stanley Baldwin, Jean Anouilh, Buckminster Fuller, .

• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
  Henry Kissinger
  
  
• Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
  ~Alan Watts from the book "The Way of Zen"
  
  
• Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
  ~Abraham Flexner
  
  

• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
  
  
• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle...your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
  ~Dr. Wayne Dyer
  
  
• Will . . . the threat of common extermination continue?. . . Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
  ~Pope John Paul II
  
  
• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
  ~Edmund Burke
  
  
• Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
  ~H. L. Mencken
  
  
• War would end if the dead could return.
  ~Stanley Baldwin
  
  
• Every man thinks god is on his side.
  ~Jean Anouilh
  
  
• Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
  ~Pope John Paul II
  
  
• Either war is obsolete, or men are.
  ~R. Buckminster Fuller
  
  

 

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