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[Anonymous American: ] War is the sure result of the existence of armed men.
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...our power to damage or destroy the environment or one another is increasing much more rapidly than our wisdom in using this power.
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Please, Ajax, son of mighty Telamon, can you not set aside your rage at me about those cursed arms? Not even now, in death? The gods made them to ruin us.
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Weapons themselves can tempt a man to fight.
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I would like to see .... that armies could be disbanded and the great navies allowed to rust and rot in perfect peace.
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"White phosphorus, white phosphorus,
mechanical snow,
where are you falling?"
"I am falling impartially on roads and roofs,
on bamboo thickets, on people.
My name recalls rich seas on rainy nights,
each drop that hits the surface eliciting
luminous response from a million algae.
My name is a whisper of sequins. Ha!
Each of them is a disk of fire,
I am the snow that burns.
I fall
wherever men send me to fall --
but I prefer flesh, so smooth, so dense:
I decorate it in black, and seek
the bone."
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...have they to use prayers or can they use force? In the first instance they always succeed badly, and never compass anything; but when they can rely on themselves and use force, then they are rarely endangered. Hence it is that all armed prophets have conquered, and the unarmed ones have been destroyed.
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It is hard to imagine a more tangible sign of failure than a nuclear cloud wafting over one's territory.
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Considering how likely we all are to be blown to pieces by it within the next five years, the atomic bomb has not roused so much discussion as might have been expected.
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...fear was surely the gun's most significant contribution to the slavers' armory.
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It is impossible to imagine a more dramatic and horrifying combination of scientific triumph with political and moral failure than has been shown to the world in the destruction of Hiroshima.
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...in bygone years when international relations were less complex, and when it was possible for two countries to quarrel and “fight it out,” like schoolboys, without inflicting any widespread injury upon others, it is wholly different now; for the calamity caused by a modern war is so great that it hardly matters, to the world at large, who, in schoolboy phrase, “began it.” It takes two to make a quarrel; and the two are jointly responsible for the disaster that their quarrel entails upon mankind.
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Who was it that first invented the dreadful sword? How savage, how truly steel-hearted was he!
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Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen, hateful, it may be said, to all creatures.
...Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man;--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory by force of arms is to him undesirable. To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
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...when men tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine. The Chasspot rifle led to the torpedo, and the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down. At least I hope it will.
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God has given them neither cannon of 24-pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
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Look at the hands and listen to the talk of the ruling and governing minority in all civilized countries! What are those hands occupied with?
They waste the money which they take out of the working people’s pockets in building barracks and Dreadnoughts; in buying field-artillery, naval-guns and all the most perfect instruments and means of mass-murder and mass-devastation on land, on sea, and even in the air; in drilling thousands and thousands of young workers to be one day the Cains of their brethren abroad. They prepare war by a furor of military and naval armaments, the expenditure on which crush the nations.
Chronology :
April 09, 2020 : Arms -- Added.
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