back Collected by Kevin Wilkins : "War ends nothing. War is sweet to those who haven't experienced it. The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service." —Allbert Einstein "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." —John F. Kennedy "War would end if the dead could return." —Stanley Baldwin "We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace." —Jeane J. Kirkpatrick "We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." —Harriet Tubman "The first casualty when war comes is truth." —Hiram Johnson "Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war." —Bob Marley "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." —Ernest Hemingway "Only the dead have seen the end of the war." —Plato "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." —Salvador Dali "You can't say that civilization don't advance, for in every war they kill you a new way." —Will Rogers "Every war already carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed." —Käthe Kollwitz "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" —Eleanor Roosevelt