1. La Condena Moral y la Tragedia Humana de la Guerra.
La mayoría de las voces en el archivo coinciden en que la guerra es un mal, una masacre y una manifestación de la incapacidad humana para resolver diferencias pacíficamente, resultando en sufrimiento universal y trauma psicológico.
- War is both unnecessary and evil. If you think about it. If youre thinking about the welfare of the people.
- War is a massacre of people who dont know each other, for the benefit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other paul valery.
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each others children. -- jimmy carter.
- War is a mass traumatizing event, ptsd is common among veterans for a reason. Humans are not built for war in general.
- War is barbaric. Thankful that ive never had to think about whether id rather die by taking a breath of a toxic cloud or by being ripped apart by schrapnel or burned alive by napalm.
2. La Guerra como Negocio, Racket y Continuación de la Política.
Se citan a menudo a Smedley Butler y George Orwell para describir la guerra como un mecanismo de lucro para las élites y una herramienta para mantener el control social, más que una lucha por la victoria.
- War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. Smedley butler.
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George orwell.
- War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von clausewitz.
- The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either eurasia or east asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. George orwell,.
- War is big business, lets not let little things like human life ethics get in the way of for those that already have plenty.
3. La Inevitabilidad, la Psicología y el Paradigma Orwelliano.
Existe un debate constante sobre si la guerra es inherente a la naturaleza humana ("war never changes") o una invención social. La repetición de la frase "War is Peace" subraya la manipulación de la realidad y la negación de la paz.
- War never changes. Well it changed a lot but it still sucks. Same shit different day basically.
- War is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength and transparency is redaction.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George orwell, 1984 1949 orwell 1984.
- War is initiated by little broken men. And history calls them nobleunless they lose. Millions perish to assuage their egos.
- War is also a mental state of consciousness. Your philosophy on life is not that important to others.
4. La Paz como Objetivo y la Necesidad de la Defensa.
Aunque la mayoría aboga por la paz, se reconoce la necesidad de la defensa y la lucha contra la agresión, aunque siempre priorizando la diplomacia y la búsqueda de soluciones que eviten el conflicto armado.
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - spinoza.
- Peace is not merely the absence of formal war. It is a child free from the hungers of the twenty-first century a woman free from fear of assault from either friend or foe. - carolyn nordstrom.
- If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
- War is over, if you want it. Lay down your arms. Stop fighting. Stop killing. Stop forcing other people to kill and to pay for killing.
- War and armed conflict are very unpleasant but when faced with a rabid adversary what are you expected to do? give in and accept invasion or stand and fight to protect your sovereignty and freedom?