QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Norman Cousins, Napoleon Hill, John F. Kennedy, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Louis Lecoin, Herbert V. Prochnow, Spinoza, David Lloyd, Benjamin Franklin, Havelock Ellis, Joseph Heller, Simone Weil, Benjamin Disraeli, Horace, Douglas Jerrold.

• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
  ~Norman Cousins
  
  
• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
  ~Napoleon Hill
  
  

• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
  ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
  
  
• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
  ~Louis Lecoin
  
  
• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
  ~Herbert V. Prochnow
  
  
• [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
  ~Spinoza
  
  
• You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
  ~David Lloyd
  
  
• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
  ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
  ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
  ~Havelock Ellis
  
  
• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
  ~Joseph Heller
  
  
• Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
  ~Simone Weil
  
  
• War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
  ~Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
  ~Horace
  
  
• Dress it as we may...huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
  ~Douglas Jerrold
  
  

 

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