WAR
AND PEACE
What follows are some important views on war and peace.
WAR
1.Lord Krishna
justifies war against evil. As for casualties, he says nobody dies forever. Only his old body perishes and his soul takes
a new form. The soul is immortal.
2. A
great war leaves the country with these armies ---an army of cripples, an army
of mourners, and an army of thieves.----German Proverb.
3. War is
the business of barbarians.---General and King of Italy (1769=1821).
4. War is an
instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies,
instead of indemnifying losses. ----3rd U.S. President Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826).
5. Who has
ever told the evils and the curses and the crimes of war? Who can describe the
horrors of the carnage of battle? Who can portray the fiendish passions which
reign there! If there is anything in which earth, more than any other,
resembles hell, it is its wars.----American clergy Albert Barnes (1798-1870).
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PEACE
6.Peace is
the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far
apart. ---English clergy Caleb Colton (1780-1832).
7. Five
great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger,
and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy
perpetual peace.----Italian poet Petrarch (1304-74).
8. We love
peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the
manhood of living man, than war is destructive of his body.—Chains are worse than bayonets,---English dramatist Douglas
Jerrold (1803-57).
9. Peace
hath her victories, no less renowned than war. ----The English poet John Milton
(1608-74).
10. to be
prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ----1st President of United States George Washington (1732-99).
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G.R.Kanwal
24 April 2025
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