As long
as there is violence, there will be war. One cannot defeat violence with more violence,
only with nonresistance to and
nonparticipation in it.
— Leturno
If my soldiers started thinking, not a single soldier would
remain in my army.
— Frederick II
The wild instinct of
military murder has developed in humanity over the course of thousands of
years, and has become rooted in our brains. We must hope that our society will
be able to rid itself of this terrible crime.
With time I understand
the army code that dictates that a sergeant is always right when he addresses a
soldier, that a lieutenant is always right when he addresses a sergeant, and so
on up to generals and marshals, even when a person says that two by two equals
five. If you do not obey your superior, you are punished by death, or years in
prison.
Wars can
be stopped only if people are ready be persecuted for not participating in
them. This is the only way.
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