Today Quotes
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The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.Niccolo Machiavelli
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.Margaret Mead
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.Fridjof Nansen
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.William Tecumseh Sherman
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."Author Unknown
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.Rabbi Ben-Azai