David Dellinger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
-- David Dellinger

#Peace #War #People
This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!
-- David Dellinger

#Dream #Fun #Holiday
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
-- David Dellinger

#Rejection #Definitions #Arms
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
-- David Dellinger

#Cosmetics #Republican #Democrat
Every act we perform today must reflect the kind of relationships we are fighting to establish tomorrow.
-- David Dellinger

#Fighting #Today #Tomorrow

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

David Dellinger famous quotes

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