QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Olive Schreiner, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Robert E. Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Berkman, Jose Barreiro, Henk Middelraad, James Baldwin, Gerard K. O'Neill, James Bryce, Lord Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Herbert C. Hoover .

• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well...than to kill ten thousand.
  ~Olive Schreiner
  
  
• The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
  ~George Orwell
  
  

• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
  ~Albert Camus
  
  
• What a cruel thing is war...to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
  ~Robert E. Lee
  
  
• ...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
  ~Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
  ~Alexander Berkman
  
  
• There is but one evil, war. All the other proclaimed evils such as hate, greed, descrimination, and jealousy are only sub-categories of it.
  ~Jose Barreiro
  
  
• Emphasis on military prowess is an indication of philosophical poverty.
  ~Henk Middelraad
  
  
• War brings out the most negative emotional human responses on both sides.
  ~Henk Middelraad
  
  
• I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
  ~James Baldwin
  
  
• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...
  ~Gerard K. O'Neill
  
  
• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
  ~James Bryce
  
  
• Don't talk to me about atrocities; all war is an atrocity.
  ~Lord Kitchener (Horatio Herbert) (This quote is spoken by the character of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel, "1984."
  
  
• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
  ~Murray Rothbard
  
  
• Old men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
  ~Herbert C. Hoover
  
  

 

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