Frederic C. Howe famous quotes

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People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.
-- Frederic C. Howe

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These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.
-- Frederic C. Howe

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War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.
-- Frederic C. Howe

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The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
-- Frederic C. Howe

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It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.
-- Frederic C. Howe

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In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.
-- Frederic C. Howe

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She turned to the sunlight Â Â Â Â And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Â Â Â Â "Winter is dead.
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earthâ€™s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charmâ€™d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Frederic C. Howe famous quotes

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