The Horror Of War

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A Power Point Presentation of some meaningful quotes on the evil and horror of War. For Reflection.

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A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of

thieves.  German Proverb

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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 that we know about peace, more about killing that we

know about living.  Omar Bradley

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.  In my opinion, there never was a

good war or a bad peace.  When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by

arbitration?  Benjamin Franklin

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The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

Martin H. Fischer

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will

think hard before starting a war.  Otto Von Bismark

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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

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“I cannot believe that war is the

best solution. No one won the last war and no one

will win the next.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells

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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not

better achieve without it. Henry Ellis

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

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War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor

arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

M. E. W. SHERWOOD

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a

theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-

destruction. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

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The End

May Compassion grow in you and me.May there be Peace and Harmony.

With MettaBro. Oh Teik Bin