Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ~Omar Bradley War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~Omar Bradley What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. ~Louis Lecoin Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? ~Douglas Jerrold Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~José Narosky War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. ~William Hooke [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ~Isaac Asimov The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ~Henry Fosdick