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Steven Foster:
You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river. [The Book of the Vision Quest

 

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

 

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n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.

 

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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

 

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Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of man; the Federation of the world.

 

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One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."



Aristotle:

 

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We make war that we may live in peace.

 

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In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

 

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

 

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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

 

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There never was a good war or

 

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him

 

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Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

 

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Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

 

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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

 

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

 

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If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

 

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They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

 

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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 are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953]

 

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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 are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

April 16, 1953