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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
- Abba Eban

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
   - Thomas Edison

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein (contemplating nuclear devastation) 

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
-Albert Einstein

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes."
-Albert Einstein

"One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war"
- Albert Einstein

"Force always attracts men of low morality."
- Albert Einstein

"I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them."
- Albert Einstein

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
- Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service."
- Albert Einstein

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an "existing one."
- Albert Einstein

"It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets." 
- Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
   - Albert Einstein

"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
- Havelock Ellis

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
- Epictetus, roman philosopher (50–138 AD)

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
- Epictetus, roman philosopher (50–138 AD)

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
- Epicurus

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. "
- Deciderius Erasmus

"Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak."
- Euripides

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"
- Edward Everett

"Demoralize the enemy, then annihilate them"
- Liutenant-General Johann von Ewald, 1790

“There is nothing impossible! Give your orders, support them with firmness, and you will see every obstacle vanish!”
- Lieutenant-General Johann von Ewald, “Treatise on the duties of light troops” (1790)