“War would end if the dead could return.” – Stanley Baldwin (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1867 – 1947, England)

“In this war — as in others — I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.” – Butler Shaffer (Lawyer, author, 1935 – 2019, USA)

“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.” – Albert Einstein (Physicist, 1879 – 1955, Germany and USA)

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage —to move in the opposite direction.” – E. F. Schumacher (Statistician, economist, 1911 – 1977, Germany, England)

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” – Mohandas Gandhi (Activist, lawyer, 1869 – 1948, India)

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.” – Agatha Christie (Writer, 1890 – 1976, England)

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell (Mathematician, philosopher, 1872 – 1970, England)

I am pissed because we are undergoing an illegal war altogether. After all, Trump, the most vicious man, wants one.

“Warmaking doesn’t stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.” – Colman McCarthy (Journalist, educator, activist, 1938 – present, USA)

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.” – Lyndon Johnson (Former President of the United States, 1908 – 1973, USA)

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” – Emma Goldman (Writer, activist, 1869 – 1940, Canada)

“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” – Andre Gide (Writer, 1869 – 1951, France)

“Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.” – Albert Einstein (Physicist, 1879 – 1955, Germany and USA)

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” – Howard Zinn (Historian, activist, 1922 – 2010, USA)

“War is sweet to those who haven’t tasted it.” – Erasmus of Rotterdam (Philosopher, theologian, 1466 – 1536, Netherlands)

“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” – Howard Thurman (Educator, activist, 1899 – 1981, USA)

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only international one in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” –Smedley Darlington Butler (Military leader)

“All wars are fought for money.” – Socrates (Philosopher, 470 BC – 399 BC, Greece)

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann (Writer, philanthropist, 1875 – 1955, Germany)

All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.” – Emma Goldman (Writer, activist, 1869 – 1940, Canada)

“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.” – Ralph Bunche (Political scientist, diplomat, 1904 – 1971, USA)

“The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest.” – Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr.

“War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.” – Ken Gillespie (Retired military leader, 1952 – present, Austrailia)

“When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (Philosopher, activist, writer, 1905 – 1980, France)

“Everything you do in war is a crime in peace.” – Helen McCloy (Writer, 1904 – 1994, USA)

“I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.” – Phillip Caputo (Writer, journalist, 1941, USA)

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin (Comedian, 1937 – 2008, USA)

“Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society.” – Frederick Moore Vinson (Politician, Former Chief Justice of the United States, 1890 – 1953, USA)

“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.” – Alfred Adler (Medical doctor, psychotherapist, 1870 – 1937, Austria)

War itself is the enemy of the human race.” – Howard Zinn (Historian, activist, 1922 – 2010, USA)