"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
"Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks." Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"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 (1890 - 1976)
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." Art Spander
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." Ernest Benn
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