The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born - Theodore Zeldin
The next revolution - World War III - will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around the scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, TV and in "cyberspace". It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future - Marshall McLuhan, Culture is our Business, 1970
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche - Carl Jung
Someday there will be a war and no one will come - Carl Sandburg
Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other - Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers - Jimmy Breslin
Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare - James Madison (4th U.S. president, 1751-1836)
It's very silly for people to fight - Maya, aged 8 http://goodmorningworld.org/blog
It's sometimes almost worth having a brutal argument with someone to taste the joys of reconciliation - Alain de Botton
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it - General Douglas MacArthur