QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Ludwig von Mises, Phillip Caputo, Robert Lynd, Ken Gillespie, Scott Ritter, Butler Shaffer, Clearchus, in Xenophon, Fritz Medicus, Lydia Sicher, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nima Shirali, Albert Camus, Anne O'Hare McCormick, Senator John McCain, John McCain, William Penn.

• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
  ~Mary Roberts Rinehart
  
  

• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
  ~Phillip Caputo
  
  
• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
  ~Robert Lynd
  
  
• War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.
  ~Ken Gillespie
  
  
• We say that we care about the war, but we don’t even really know what we’re fighting for.
  ~Scott Ritter
  
  
• In this war – as in others – I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
  ~Butler Shaffer
  
  
• some men...in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties...
  ~Clearchus, in Xenophon
  
  
• If, finally, violence meets with violence, we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it kills many men, makes many more men evil.
  ~Fritz Medicus
  
  
• As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance.
  ~Lydia Sicher
  
  
• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
  
  
• Let us become inspired by inherent beauty, and not impassioned by manufactured hate.
  ~Nima Shirali, Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum
  
  
• The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
  ~Albert Camus
  
  
• Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
  ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
  
  
• War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
  ~Senator John McCain
  
  
• Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
  ~William Penn
  
  

 

Prior | Tell us what you think | Next

Add to Your Social Bookmarks: Del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit Simpy Spurl Y! MyWeb - Netscape - StumbleUpon StumbleUpon