Six Quotes About War

"The most shocking thing about war
is that its victims and its instruments are individual human
beings, and that these individual
human beings are condemned by
the monstrous conventions of politics, to murder or be murdered
in quarrels not their own."
-- Aldous Huxley --

.......

"A lot of young boys go to war
because they do not appreciate the
difference between being killed and
growing up."
-- Tom Robbins --

...........

"Since 1945, we have spent $4 trillion on nuclear weapons. That is
enough to kill every person on Earth
12 times over. This means that for
every living person on this planet,
there has been an expenditure of
$700 million to effectively kill us
once. The real expenditure on killing us has been that figure
multiplied by 12."
-- Marilyn Waring / IF WOMEN COUNTED

...........

"Most of all, we learned about death
at an early age, when it is common to think of oneself as immortal.
Everyone loses that illusion eventually, but in civilian life, it
is lost in installments over the
years. We lost it all at once, and,
in the span of months, passed from
boyhood through manhood to a
premature old age."
-- Philip Caputo / A RUMOR OF WAR --

.........

"Once a certain class of people has
been placed by the temporal and
spiritual authorities, outside the
ranks of those whose life has value,
then nothing comes more naturally to
men then murder."
-- Simone Weil --

.......

"The worst danger in any war is from
intellectual looters: those who
plunder, burn, and murder the
character and morals of a nation."
-- George Bernard Shaw --

................................... Tweet