A Power Point Presentation of some meaningful quotes on the evil and horror of War. For Reflection.

1. The Horror Of War

2. A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. German Proverb

3. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar Bradley

4. All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? Benjamin Franklin

5. The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. Martin H. Fischer

6. Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. Otto Von Bismark

7. One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie

8. “ I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.” Eleanor Roosevelt

9. If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells

10. The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. John F. Kennedy

11. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Henry Ellis

12. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell

13. War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. M. E. W. SHERWOOD

14. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

15. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.

16. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

17. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy

18. The End May Compassion grow in you and me. May there be Peace and Harmony. With Metta Bro. Oh Teik Bin