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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. -- Elihu Root
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. -- Ludwig von Mises
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. -- Lysander Spooner
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole. -- Lauren DeStefano
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. -- Arthur Henderson
Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States. -- Charles Duke
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. -- Eisaku Sato
If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb. -- Ron Moody
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort. -- Don Young
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. -- Christian Lous Lange
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. -- Jack Kemp
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. -- John Foster Dulles
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. -- Umberto Eco
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace. -- Max Heindel
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War is the enemy of all mankind. -- Edwin Starr
War is the greatest failure of mankind. -- Aaron Huey
The history of mankind is a history of war. -- Mike Love
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation. -- John F. Kennedy
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. -- Chris Hedges
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. -- John F. Kennedy
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. -- George Washington
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible. -- Thomas Jefferson
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity. -- Albert Einstein
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. -- Frederic Raphael
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness. -- Phil Klay
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind. -- Pope Paul VI
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. -- Edgar Allan Poe
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961] -- John F. Kennedy
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind. -- U Thant
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has. -- Bill Murray
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. -- Nigel Calder
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? -- Orson Scott Card
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' -- Immanuel Kant
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds. -- Edward Gibbon
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. -- Thomas Jefferson

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