War and Violence

• "Why do men go to war? Because women are watching." 

                                                                                      -- T. S. Eliot 

• "The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.

                                                                                                                                -- Genghis Kahn 

• "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." 

                                                                                                                                --Napoleon Bonaparte 

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

                                                                                                                                --Joseph Heller 

• "Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves." 

                                                                                                                      --William Hazlitt 

• "There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending." 

                                                                                                                                                                                    --Abraham Lincoln 

• "War is progress, peace is stagnation." 

                                                               --Hegel 

• "It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die." 

                                                                                                                                --unknown 

• "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest thing: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war is worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." 

                    -- John Stuart Mill 

• "Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers." 

                                                                                                                                                                             --Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.