SOME FAMOUS THOUGHTS ABOUT WAR
If war is not illegal, it is
certainly immoral. It is a killer, a destroyer, a crippler, a maker of widows
and orphans, a turner of fertile land
into a desert.
It is inherently evil, responsible
for widespread destruction and mass slaughter of innocent men, women and
children.
It is the enemy of nature and its
multiple fertility. It creates hatred
and thoughts revenge and retaliation. It also ruins a number of noble values.
The English writer Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745) said: War! That mad game the world so loves to play.
And this is what James Kirkup (1918-2009)-a poet and professor
of English literature associated with
many universities says in his poem -- “No
Men Are Foreign”:
REMEMBER,
no men are strange, no countries foreign,
Beneath
all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like
ours; the land our brothers walk upon
Is
earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They,
too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are
fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their
hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A
labour not different from our own.
Here
are a couple of very famous thoughts:
*War is the business of barbarians.
---Former Emperor of the French Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821).
*War is nothing less than a temporary
repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the
virtues are excluded and in which nearly all the vices are included.----English
clergy Robert Hall (1764-1831)
Finally,
this is what Lord Jesus Christ said : Blessed are the peacemakers, because they
will be called sons of God
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G.R.Kanwal
2nd March 2026
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