„When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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„It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should have made… But this war was a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.“
— Ulysses S. Grant
„We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.“
— Golda Meir
„We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.“
— Golda Meir
„I think that I have now said enough about the war, which is past now for over twenty-five years. I bow in reverence before the memory of the men who lost their lives in this war on both sides, and I think that we all hope that we never shall have such a war again.“
— Karl Dönitz
„And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.“
— Aristotle