Selected quotes

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin)

It’s no longer a choice between violence and non-violence, but a choice between non-violence or non existence. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

To sin by silence when you should protest makes cowards out of men.    (Abraham Lincoln)

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (Theodore Roosevelt)

To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.                            (Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership)

A war that lacks legitimacy does not acquire legitimacy because it has been won. (Jacques Chirac, May 2003)

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence. (Thomas Merton)

A collection of Quotes: http://www.renaissancealliance.org/silenc/quotes.htm

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