Hercules part 1 The demands of

Hercules part 1

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to the need for any external expansion of our power. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. About the quote : This quote is often mis-attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev, who merely quoted the remark from Solzhenitsyns Nobel prize Harvard address. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. Distorted history boasts of bellicose and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. It is always easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them. Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. as a way of gaining being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor and national At least were getting the kind of experience we need for the next war. The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three small lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris. About the quote : Andrew Greely is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. You can read his articles at Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. About the quote : quote from The Anti-War Quote Book, edited Eric Groves, Sr. , pub. Quirk Books, 2008 The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. About the quote : Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the About the quote : Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. About the quote : Randolph 1889-1979 was an African American civil rights leader. quote from The Anti-War Quote Book, edited Eric Groves, Sr. , pub. Quirk Books, 2008 Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.