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it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him." -Baudouin I 1930-1993, King of the Belgians "America is addicted to wars of distraction." -Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." -Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist "Morality is contraband in war." -Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke "The cost to the good citizens for their indifference in public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men." Plato - 428-347 BC "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive" C.S. Lewis "If I don't like it, I call it "terrorism". Alexander Haig - US Army General and Secretary of State under Nixon "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. " Proverbs 27:12 "Those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for security do not deserve either." Benjamin Franklin "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." George W Bush ~ Oct. 2000 "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe, I believe what I believe is right." George W Bush ~ Jul. 2001  War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." -John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA "Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry." -Joseph Heller 1923-, American Author "Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." -Herbert Hoover 1874-1964, 31st American President "A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy." -Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author "The minority, the ruling class, has the schools and the Press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses and make its tool of them." Albert Einstein (in a letter to Sigmund Freud 1932) "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the government can play" Joseph Goebbels (Nazi Propaganda Minister) "If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied." -Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse "War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost." -Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist "I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes." -Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II "War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands." -H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." - Fredrich Nietzche "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo "What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior." -Florence Nightingale 1820-1910, British Nurse  "There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction." -George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' "The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war." -Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1900-1990, Indian Diplomat "Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?" -Leslie Parrish-Bach "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked. Then, denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger." - Herman Goering Nazi Air Force Commander "The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people." -Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic "Wars are made to make debt." -Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic "To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love." -German Proverb Sayings of German Origin "More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." -Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA "War is a contagion." -Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - Adolph Hitler "Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial." -William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor "In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine." -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist "Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack." -Sun Tzu c 400-430 bc, Chinese Military Strategist, Author of ''Art of War'' "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." -Sun Tzu c 400-430 bc, Chinese Military Strategist, Author of ''Art of War'' "The savage in man is never quite eradicated." -Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist "What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict." -Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic  "Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace." -Charles Sumner "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -Bertrand Russell "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." -Anonymous "Never take your own revenge - leave room for the wrath of God for it is written - vengeance is mine and I will repay, says the Lord." Rom.12:19 Bible "Tremble (with anger) and do not sin" - Ps:4:4.Bible "be angry, but sin not; do not let the sun go down on your wrath." - Eph 4:26. Bible "Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them." -Anonymous "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." -Napoleon "The great masses of the people more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one." Adolph Hitler "People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing." - Will Rogers "Authority is never without hate." - Euripides "Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength." - Bulwer-Lytton "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it" - William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778 "What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world." - letter to his wife, 1864 -Robert E. Lee "Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both." -Abraham Flexner "A leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. If you fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say "we did this ourselves!"" - Lao-Tse  "If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. - Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." -Henry Fosdick "Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects." Leo Tolstoy 1893 "There was never a good war or a bad peace." -Benjamin Franklin "Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country." -Bertrand Russell "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." -George McGovern "Everyone wants to change humanity, but nobody wants to change himself." - Tolstoy "Man's destiny lies between what is inside of him and the stars he was born under." - Persian saying "War is fear cloaked in courage." -William Westmoreland "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." --William Westmoreland "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself." --William Shakespeare (Henry VIII) "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." -André Gide "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." -Ulysses S. Grant "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." -Dwight D. Eisenhower "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." -Ernest Hemingway "Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?" -Norman Cousins "The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution." -John F. Kennedy "A man can't live as he pleases, can't even die as he pleases." - Gregory Peck in 'Snows of Kilamanjaro' "If the best things in life were once free, now they are endangered." - Vdas  "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -Jean-Paul Sartre "We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few but we cannot have both." - Louis Brandels (Supreme Court Justice 1916-1939) "The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. " - 1967 -Gerome Gragni "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it." -Havelock Ellis "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." -François Fénelon "Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life." - Alice Thomas Ellis "Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?" -Holly Near "If someone is coming to kill you, rise up early and kill him first." - Talmud "Without victory, there is no survival." - Winston Churchill "The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service." -Albert Einstein "You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. " -Will Rogers "I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars." -Abbie Hoffman "I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war." -Georges Clemenceau "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." -Fred Woodworth "A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war." -Herbert V. Prochnow "We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk." -Eleanor Roosevelt  "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -George Orwell "The masses have never thirsted after truth...whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master and whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." Gustave Le Bon - 1895 "Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." -Issac Asimov "Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has never truly been there before!" -Larry Reeves "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve." - After attack on Pearl Harbor. -Yamamoto "A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war." -Albert Einstein "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 not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower "All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?" -Emperor Hirohito " What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" -Gandhi "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams 1772 "Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743 - 1812) " Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "Only the dead have seen the end of war." -Plato "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." -Ronald Reagan "I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"" - exact words of George W Bush Jan. 2001  His Divine Grace A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI'S Purports  This enmity becomes more and more deep - between persons, then between families, then between societies, then between nations. Therefore there is constant strife, war and enmity all over the world." - Bhagavad Gita 16.16 purport "The asuras (demons) want to enjoy a life of sense gratification, even at the cost of other's happiness. In order to fulfill this ambition, the asuras, especially atheistic kings or state executive heads, try to equip themselves with all kinds of deadly weapons to bring about a war in a peaceful society. They have no ambition other than personal aggrandizement, and thus mother earth feels overburdened by such undue increases in military strength. By such increase of the asuric population, those who follow the principles of religion become unhappy, especially the devotees, or devas (godly souls)." - Srimad Bhagavatam 1.16.34 Purport "The material world is itself a place always full of anxieties, and by encouraging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere becomes polluted more and more by war, pestilence, famine and many other unwanted calamities" - Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.37 Purport "Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into the hellish factory and the war fields at the whims of a particular man?" - Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.4 Purport "To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is enmity toward poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always the strain of cold and hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally." - Srimad Bhagavatam 1,10.6 Purport "The world is compared to a forest. At any moment there may be a flare-up of fire in the forest due only to friction between bamboos. Fire takes place and burns an entire forest. Similarly, in the greater forest of worldly transaction, the fire of war takes place because of the violent passion of the conditioned souls illusioned by the external energy. Such a worldly fire can be extinguished only by the water of the mercy of saints, just as a forest fire can be extinguished only by rains falling from a cloud." - Srimad Bhagavatam 3.1.21 Purport "The devotee of the Lord is not at all interested in creating unwanted things for a situation which is not at all reality, but simply names of no more significance than the babble of sea waves. The great kings, leaders, and soldiers fight with one another in order to perpetuate their names in history. They are forgotten in due course of time, and they make a place for another era in history. But a devotee of the Lord realizes how much history and historical persons are useless products of flickering time." - Srimad Bhagavatam 2.2.3 Purport "But at times, due to the influence of the ignorance mode of material nature (tamo-guna), the lowest of the material modes, kings and administrators come into power without knowledge and responsibility, and such foolish administrators live like animals for the sake of their own personal interest. The result is that the whole atmosphere becomes surcharged with anarchy and vicious elements. Nepotism, bribery, cheating, aggression, and therefore famine, epidemics, war and similar other disturbing features become prominent in human society. And the devotees of the Lord or the faithful are persecuted by all means. All these symptoms indicate the time of an incarnation of the Lord to reestablish the principles of religion and to vanquish the maladministrators. This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita." - Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.25 Purport "This kind of government cannot check the resultant actions of sinful life, namely war, pestilence, famine, earthquakes and similar other disturbances. Nature's law is that as soon as there are discrepencies in regard to the laws of God (which are described in Bhagavad Gita as 'dharmasya glanih', or disobedience to the laws of nature or God), at once there will be heavy punishment in the form of sudden outbreaks of war. We have recently experienced a war between India and Pakistan. Within fourteen days there have been immense losses of men and money, and there have been disturbances to the entire world. These are the reactions of sinful life. The Krsna Consciousness movement is meant to make people pure and perfect. If we become even partially pure as described in the Bhagavatam. by development of Krsna Consciousness, then lust and greed, the material diseases of the citizens, will be reduced. This can be made possible by broadcasting the pure message of Srimad Bhagavatam, or Krsna Consciousness." - Srimad Bhagavatam 4.20.21 Purport "You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the Sankirtana Movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the Sankirtana Movement because it is the will of God Himself, Lord Caitanya, that His Holy Name be heard in every town and village. Neither can the demons devastate this planet independent of the will of Krsna. Nothing happens without His sanction. If Krsna wants to kill someone no one can save Him, and if Krsna wants to save someone no one can kill him. For our parts we should just be determined to carry out our mission against all opposition, demons, nuclear war, whatever. The whole universe is finally subject to certain annihilation by the will of Krsna, but devotional service is eternal and is the only certain way one can save himself from devastation. (S.P. Letter to: Makhanlal ~ Mayapur 22 June, 1973) "Under the circumstances, the world will periodically suffer from such upsurges and outbreaks of war, which are the consequences of not being Krishna conscious." - Srimad Bhagavatam 4.20.21 Purport 
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