Publisher's Synopsis
For more than four thousand years, the world's most influential philosophers, educators, politicians, scientists, artists, clergy, and soldiers have argued against war.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.-Benjamin Franklin
All wars are popular for the first thirty days.-Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
War is a bankruptcy of policy.-Hans von Seeckt
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.-Plato
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.-A. Philip Randolph
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.-E. B. White
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.-Albert Einstein
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.-Alice Walker
