War and Peace

Aphorisms in This Category

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tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · submitted 1997

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · submitted 1997

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

tiny.ag/ry32bjva · submitted 1997

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

tiny.ag/rkg7iuvl · submitted 1997

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

tiny.ag/onprshw2 · submitted 1997

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · submitted 1997

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · submitted 1997

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

tiny.ag/xm0eggq6 · submitted 1997

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

tiny.ag/7alftveq · submitted 1997

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · submitted 1997

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · submitted 1997

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

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