The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
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Related God, deities and prophets thrive on obscurity, and it does not necessarily have to be material obscu... ABHIJIT NASKAR A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue ti... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When prope... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ... JOHN CONNOLLY For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took
its rise. . . . The scandal of men... PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves... JOHN MCCAIN The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its ... PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment ... WOLE SOYINKA Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When one does not like to have ‘underhand’, then automatically, he will not have a superior. Tha... DADA BHAGWAN ...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know,... AYN RAND Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its pu... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its ... KAHLIL GIBRAN Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty SIMONE WEIL Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and wha... JOHN STUART MILL Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. SIMONE WEIL The swift resolution of this matter is the direct result of effective coordination and serves as a g... LOUIS REIGEL It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will al... MAHATMA GANDHI War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It shou... ERICH FROMM Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It ... ERICH FROMM For many people, that war [WWII] is called the “good war” because it was fought against a regime... NEL NODDINGS Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his sp... VIKTOR E. FRANKL To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The library is totally inadequate in terms of its size, as far as the community that it serves. KATAYOON SHAYA This is an end to an era, but what has not ended is the court case, and that will have its consequen... DRAGAN CAVIC But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins an... NEIL POSTMAN Under the name of truth I also included beauty, virtue, and every kind of goodness, so that for me i... SIMONE WEIL This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any partic... EUGEN HERRIGEL Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not ... KARL MARX Science will provide the material basis for a spiritually mature technologically advanced civilisati... JONATHAN R. BANKS The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of... LOUIS PASTEUR As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its s... GUSTAV STRESEMANN If the PM wants to answer a different question, thats fine, and thats a good answer to a differe... GARY ACKERMAN The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ... JOHN BURROUGHS Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ... BUDDHA Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise... DIANE ACKERMAN This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE Freedom is the inherent state of nature. A bird is free until you clip its wings and put it in a cag... DANE WHALEN The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite... GEORG CANTOR Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful... MOHANDAS GANDHI An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings ... THEODOR MOMMSEN There is a relentless war between good and evil which has to be fought whether one likes it or not. RADHIKA MUNDRA As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as... OSCAR WILDE As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as... OSCAR WILDE As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon a... OSCAR WILDE Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the wil... JOHN CALVIN It is not advisable to have an alternative budget without knowing how much you are budgeting for. It... BERNARD BALIKANI Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its en... WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. Learning is not learning until it gives hope for the future, touches humanity to reflect, and serves... RAYMOND OBENG These words [of Romans 12:1-2] are overflowingly rich in consolation; for just then when afflictions... MARTIN LUTHER This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL War is ruthless murder, yet it is justifiable only when a country is defending its turf from outside... SUZY KASSEM This thing is an enormous fiasco, ... really undermines its legitimacy, and this result guarantees t... JUAN COLE As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on a... OSCAR WILDE Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 All these several artifices, whateve... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man'... AYN RAND Feast of Mark the Evangelist To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, thou... COVENTRY PATMORE The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o... 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DEYTH BANGER What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first ink... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Intellect in its truest form, does not allow for war MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a po... FRANK GRISWOLD We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w... EDWARD DAHLBERG The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is ... LESTER B. PEARSON Indeed, only what does not have a tangible measure can easily be exaggerated in importance. This is ... 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