If we stay strong, then I believe we can stabilize the world and have peace based on force.
—Edward Teller, 1958
The greatest evil that can oppress civilized people derives from […] the never-ending
arming for future war.
—Immanuel Kant, 1795
Great armaments lead inevitably to war.
—Edward Grey, 1925
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been
bombing over the years been complaining?
—George Wallace
6
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
—Georges Clemenceau, 1919
7
***
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
—W. L. George
8
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
—Joseph Heller, 1961
All men are brothers. […] All wars are civil wars.
—François Fénelon, 1699
Our true nationality is mankind.
—H. G. Wells, 1920
I am first a man and only then a Frenchman.
—Montesquieu, 1721
Love for your fatherland is a wonderful thing, but there is something even more beautiful –
this is love for the truth.
—Pyotr Chaadaev, 1837
Love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but
idolatrous worship.
—Erich Fromm, 1955
6
As quoted, without a date, by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query in 2006.
7
This maxim, attributed by some to Charles de Talleyrand and by others to Aristide Briand, was
later repeated by Charles De Gaulle about politics and politicians, by Iain Macleod about history
and historians, and by John Archibald Wheeler about philosophy and philosophers. (I believe that
in sciences, similarly, theory is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to dedicated theorists).
8
As quoted, without a date, in several reputable sources, starting not later than 1970.
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—Edward Teller, 1958
The greatest evil that can oppress civilized people derives from […] the never-ending
arming for future war.
—Immanuel Kant, 1795
Great armaments lead inevitably to war.
—Edward Grey, 1925
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been
bombing over the years been complaining?
—George Wallace
6
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
—Georges Clemenceau, 1919
7
***
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
—W. L. George
8
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
—Joseph Heller, 1961
All men are brothers. […] All wars are civil wars.
—François Fénelon, 1699
Our true nationality is mankind.
—H. G. Wells, 1920
I am first a man and only then a Frenchman.
—Montesquieu, 1721
Love for your fatherland is a wonderful thing, but there is something even more beautiful –
this is love for the truth.
—Pyotr Chaadaev, 1837
Love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but
idolatrous worship.
—Erich Fromm, 1955
6
As quoted, without a date, by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query in 2006.
7
This maxim, attributed by some to Charles de Talleyrand and by others to Aristide Briand, was
later repeated by Charles De Gaulle about politics and politicians, by Iain Macleod about history
and historians, and by John Archibald Wheeler about philosophy and philosophers. (I believe that
in sciences, similarly, theory is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to dedicated theorists).
8
As quoted, without a date, in several reputable sources, starting not later than 1970.
186
On War and Peace