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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. An unjust peace is better than a just war. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. War would end if the dead could return. If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. I have not yet begun to fight! The first casualty when war comes is truth. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. War makes thieves and peace hangs them. In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. There was never a good war, or a bad peace. All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. If we don't end war, war will end us. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. All war is deception. War is the unfolding of miscalculations. What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. 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. When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Sweat saves blood. You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. Only the dead have seen the end of the war. War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. |
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