Entry 80: DEDICATED ON THIS FIRST Live Earth Day TO THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING or THE IRAQ WAR

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

Ammon Hennacy

Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

George W. Bush

All wars are fought for money.

Socrates

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai Stevenson

If I am brutal, and you use brutal methods to overcome me, you become brutal just like me.

Krishnamarti

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

Jeanette Winterson

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Lao Tzu

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Lucy Ellman

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Holly Near

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.

Abbie Hoffman

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alexander Pope

War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

All war is deception.

Sun-tzu

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Marquis de Sade

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Guy de Maupassant

[It's tragic and too bad that George W. Bush didn't know this.]

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Montesquieu

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Patrick J. Buchanan

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

George W. Bush

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Simone Weil

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

Freidrich Nietzsche

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey