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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey. -- William Ellery Channing
Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits. -- Sun Tzu
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come. -- Thomas Jefferson
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. -- Bertrand Russell
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. -- Sun Tzu
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side. -- Thomas Jefferson
War has never been nor ever shall be the lesser of two evils -- K.C. McGee
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. -- Herman Melville
In a war between evils, only evil wins. -- Marty Rubin
In love there are two evils: war and peace. -- Horace
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. -- McGeorge Bundy
who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits -- Sun Tzu
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. -- James Meade
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. -- Saul Bellow
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. -- Michael Ignatieff
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. -- Juvenal
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. -- Noah Webster

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