QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Charles Evans Hughes, John Andrew Holmes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Albert Einstein, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Dalai Lama, Ammon Hennacy, Sen. J. William Fulbright, Daniel O'Connell.

• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
  ~Charles Evans Hughes
  
  
• Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
  ~John Andrew Holmes
  
  

• I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
  ~J. Ramsay MacDonald
  
  
• We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
  ~J. Ramsay MacDonald
  
  
• The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
  ~Howard Thurman
  
  
• How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• We have guided missiles and misguided men.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute...
  ~Dalai Lama
  
  
• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• Force is the weapon of the weak.
  ~Ammon Hennacy
  
  
• The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.
  ~Sen. J. William Fulbright (Ark.)
  
  
• There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.
  ~Daniel O'Connell
  
  

 

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