DON’T THINK OF WAR
Hon’rable men and women, rulers and the
ruled, never think of war because it is an evil, not a virtue; destructive, not
constructive, a wastage, not a utility.
It produces tears, not smiles. It is itself a problem, not the solution
of any problem. It is anti-life and anti-creation;
pro-death and pro-devastation. It is expensive
with no gain. It stops prosperity and starts breeding misery. It has no victory
to be proud of. It ends in repentance. It is a murderer of humanism and human
values.
A thinker on war has said somewhere that if war has its chivalry and pageantry, it
also has its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They
tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.
According to former French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) war is the business of
barbarians.
And finally as the English writer and historian H. G. Wells
(1866-1946) said militarism and warfare are childish things, if they are not
more horrible than anything childish can be. They must become things of the
past.
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G.R.Kanwal
10th March 2024.
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