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Unacceptable violence

Oct. 1, 1946

War as felt by a General

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

June 3, 1947

Mankind's tragic folly

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men."

The nonsense of war

Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

2011

Genocide and cultural ethnocide

Genocide is preceded by cultural ethnocide, or the gradual and deliberate erosion and manipulation of cultural values and practices by political authorities. The dissolution of this cultural foundation (...) makes people incapable of protecting themselves and their communities from the descent into the abyss of mass atrocities; it allows them to be manipulated to commit execrable acts counter to their own time-tested values and traditions.

1870

How military prowess drives to inhumanity

The proper strategy consists in inflicting as telling blows as possible on the enemy's army, and then causing the inhabitants so much suffering that they must long for peace, and force the government to demand it. The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to weep with over the war.

Violence – wrong answer?

If violence is the answer, then the question is stupid.

Anonymous