“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
Anatole France
“War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.”
George Washington
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.”
Scott Nearing
“Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?”
Lorraine Hansberry
“I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
Albert Einstein