QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Leo Tolstoy, Lao Tzu, Ludwig von Mises, Robin Cook, Russell Baker, Ronald Reagan, Aesop, Lewis Mumford, Mark Twain, Sir Francis Bacon, James Madison, Nima Shirali, James Madison, Ramman Kenoun, James Bryce, Dorothy Thompson, James Wolcott.

• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
  ~Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
  ~Lao Tzu
  
  

• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
  ~Robin Cook (Cook is Britain's former foreign secretary. He resigned from the British Cabinet over the Iraq War.)
  
  
• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
  ~Russell Baker
  
  
• A people free to choose will always choose peace.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
  ~Aesop
  
  
• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing...
  ~Lewis Mumford
  
  
• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  
• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
  ~Sir Francis Bacon
  
  
• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• Let us form a new religion, that which would be called 'humanity', with 'peace' as its prophet.
  ~Nima Shirali, Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum
  
  
• All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
  ~James Bryce
  
  
• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
  ~Dorothy Thompson
  
  
• Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
  ~James Wolcott (in his article “From Fear to Eternity” in Vanity Fair, March 2005)
  
  

 

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