War and Peace - Sharing Thoughts from Good Minds : Information Clearing House

Quotations shared by Baquer Namazi and Andre Roberfroid

From Baquer

“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.” - Joseph Heller

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. - Albert Einstein

“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like." - Suzanne Collins

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes” - Robert Jordan

From Andre Roberfroid

Some more -

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”

Tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by “a world of enemies,” “one against all,” that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

Some in french:


Victor Hugo

Dieu n’avait fait que l’eau, mais l’homme a fait le vin !

“ Si l’on ne peut pardonner, cela ne vaut pas la peine de vaincre.”


“La guerre, c’est la guerre des hommes ; la paix, c’est la guerre des idées.”