Quotes
On Vengeance, Revenge, Retribution, an Eye for Eye
“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so…
On War (Part 12)
“War is a defeat for humanity.” ——Pope John Paul II “Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore…prove ultimately futile.” ——Pope John Paul II “You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through…
On War (Part 11)
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” ——John 8:32, The Bible “Power always thinks it has a…
On War (Part 10)
“Politics is the womb in which war develops.” ——Carl P. G. von Clausewitz “A rational army would run away.” ——Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu “The voice of protest…is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum…is…
On War (Part 9)
“Love life – be a peacemaker.” ——Gary Amirault “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” ——Barbara Bush (1925- ) “The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” ——George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, Second Thoughts on James…
On War (Part 8)
“War had become nothing more than slaughtering soldiers from a safe distance. When this failed to produce victory, civilians too became targeted for annihilation. It took more than a century, two world wars and the invention of the ultimate weapon,…
On War (Part 7)
“To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.” ——Ludwig von Mises “The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught…
On War (Part 6)
“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords who inhabited the castles whose towers may still be seen along the Rhine concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power,…
On War (Part 5)
“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 Friedman “I was able to go to Iraq to the place my son died and…
On War (Part 4)
“There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented… The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.” ——Ernest Bevin, speech in the…
On War (Part 3)
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” ——Joseph Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945 “During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the…
On War (Part 2)
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” ——Ernest Hemingway “Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.” ——Elmer Barnes “The West…
On War (Part 1)
“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”…
On Power, Justice, and Mercy (Part 2)
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” ——Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor and singer, 1890-1977 “If, while there is yet time, we turn to Justice and obey her, if we trust Liberty and follow her, the…
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