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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

~Albert Einstein
physicist (1879—1955)

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

~David Freidman

"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advice to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might as well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."

Col. Dubois, "Starshop Troopers"

~Robert Heinlein

"It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too found of it."

~Robert E. Lee

"The violent always suspect others of violence."

Maris, "Windhaven"

~George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle

"Afterall, it is up to the enemies, not to us, to find the reason for the deaths we inflict on them."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society"

~Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

"Viet Nam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communist by dropping things on them from airplanes."

~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
novelist

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