Prairie fever part 1 A great

Prairie fever part 1

A great war leaves the country with three armies an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. The only defensible war is a war of defense. A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. My country right or wrong is like saying, My mother drunk or sober. There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. Theres no difference between ones killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. Its exactly the same thing, or even worse. Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ships captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Although successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people. The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. About the quote : Arendt 1906-1975 was a German-Jewish political theorist and philosopher. From The Anti-War Quote Book, Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr. The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. About the quote : Van Seeckt was German military officer who lived from 1866-1 quote from The Anti-War Quote Book, edited Eric Groves, Sr. , pub. Quirk Books, 2008 War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it The tragedy of war is that it uses mans best to do mans worst. I hate the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world. About the quote : Truman 1884-1972 was president of the United States. quote from The Anti-War Quote Book, edited Eric Groves, Sr. , pub. Quirk Books, 2008 Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! War brings out the most negative emotional human responses on both sides. Emphasis on military prowess is an indication of philosophical poverty.