143. WAR         --page 1094--

         From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? (Jam.4:1).

         1. There's hardly anything as horrible as war, and there's hardly anything better than peace!
         2. Countries used to go to war just for pride, but in modern years they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars.
         3. Disarmament is like a party. Nobody wants to arrive until everyone else is there.
         4. In time of war the first casualty is truth.
         5. The System has never yet prepared for a war that they didn't have.
         6. Who are the greater criminals, those who buy and use the instruments of death or those who sell them?
         7. War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states and it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.--Martin Luther.
         8. When after many battles past,
         Both, tired with blows, make peace at last,
         What is it, after all, the people get?
         Why, taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt!
         9. All's fair in love and war, and when love is gone there's only war.
         10. The major powers of the World wouldn't have made all those bombs if they didn't plan to use them!
         11. Politics is a dirty game and its ultimate is always war.
         12. According to the rulers of the World, war by great armies is OK, but terrorism by a little tiny handful of rebels is a monstrous crime!
         13. Pride is what has caused most wars, fomented them, started them, fought them and ended them!
         14. God is letting man go his own way to show what a mess he is without the Lord and what a Hell on Earth he can make out of a Heaven on Earth.
         15. Nations at war make all kinds of promises and they turn right around and break'm if they get desperate enough.
         16. God uses the sword of the enemy as His sword to punish a country for its sins and its wickedness.
         17. Most of men's wars have not necessarily been the forces of good fighting with the forces of evil, but have been the forces of evil fighting other forces of evil.
         18. Listen to how the World celebrates the incoming of a new year--with noise and force and violence, the sounds of war!
         19. The Devil really blesses his favourite business, war, that slaughters and kills and destroys and wrecks, because he's trying to destroy you and the Earth, all God's Creation!
         20. Violence breeds violence, and he that lives by the sword shall die by the sword! (Mt.26:52)
         21. Before every war there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation.
         22. Warfare is man's greatest sport, his most delightful occupation, creating the most possible destruction, man's inhumanity to man!
         23. That will be the real genuine disarmament, beating their weapons into instruments of peace in the Millennium!
         24. Not everybody hates war--the Devil and his children love it!
         25. When the rich get rich, then they want to get richer! And when they get as rich as they possibly can get, then they want to get power! And when they get powerful, then they want to be more powerful--which ultimately erupts in war!
         26. Most wars are not the poor fighting the rich, they are the rich fighting the rich using the poor!
         27. There are no atheists in foxholes.
         28. No matter how mighty are the great conventional armies and the firepower of the mightiest military powers on Earth, they can never conquer a righteous cause!
         29. War is total waste, the most destructive total waste there is--In materials, in time, in lands, in people.
         30. The evil imaginations of evil minds can be recreated by science and have been today, the worst being the atomic bomb!
         31. God could have stopped them from inventing the atomic bomb, but He let it happen because that's what the Superpowers deserve!
         32. Nobody ever wins a war.--Everybody always loses.
         33. There'll be no more crosses then, just flowers--no more graves, just the growing--no more dead, only the living--no more dying, only the loving.--Tomorrow!--When the World is free of war, and the poppies grow and live forever!
         34. Every war sows the seed of more wars.
         35. Always before every big war they have a test-tube war in which they test the armaments of each side. The big boys have the little boys go to work on each other with each one's armaments.
         36. War is the ultimate fulfillment of the competitive spirit: the destruction of others for self-preservation.
         37. Man's favourite sport is war!
         38. God damn the politicians and bureaucrats and munitions makers and the war mongers and the people who want the wars but never have to fight them, people who want the wars to save themselves and their businesses and their jobs and their political parties, but never have to fight them themselves!
         39. What man condemns as crimes on the local minor individual level, he promotes as patriotism, bravery, valour and justifiable wholesale horror on the national and international level of war.
         40. In every war there is always a public excuse for the war and then the real reason for the war.
         41. They that love death prefer the confusion of destruction forever and are always happier in a hell of vanities and war.
         42. The real war goes on, between God and destructive mankind, and most of all, the continued war between God and the Devil, angels and demons, good and evil, Christ and the Antichrist, Christians and anti-Christians, in a growing spiritual battle royal for the Salvation of the Earth and the souls of men.
         43. There's hardly been a time in the whole history of the World when there wasn't a war going on somewhere.
         44. We'll never have total peace till we get rid of the God-damned warmakers, the evil hearts that make war! War is in their hearts! They thirst for blood, they lust for destruction!--"Them that destroy the Earth!" (Rev.11:18)
         45. No war ends all wars; it only sows the seeds for more wars.
         46. They never fight "wars" anymore, they're only "efforts to bring peace"!
         47. If the West would spend as much money on the poor of the World as they spend on arms, it would solve all the World's poverty problems! There wouldn't be any poor!

         (See also No. H, 108, 171, 179A, 214A, 255, 274, 277, 281, 289, 305, 311, 321, 335A, 368, 373, 388, 391, 523, 547, 601, 637, 654, 655, 681, 704, 738, 740, 741, 762, 801, 849, 858, 865, 867, 869, 874, 875, 883, 905, 912, 914, 918, 937, 939, 1018, 1030, 1094, 1095, 1193, 1194, 1227, 1241-1245, 1256-1258, 1266, 1284, 1326, 1327, 1419, 1502, 1503, 1518, 1520, 1528, 1538.)

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