A Quote by Albert Einstein

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
German - Physicist
March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

Vladimir Lenin

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

Albert Einstein

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Mao Zedong

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Zedong

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

Bertrand Russell

Warfare cannot be humanized.

Albert Einstein

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Bernard Cornwell

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.

Robert H. Jackson

Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

Barbara Ehrenreich

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Rigoberta Menchu

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

Ingrid Betancourt

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

John F. Kennedy

To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

Albert Einstein

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.