"I am working with the higher education system in Afghanistan. My work in this world is teaching and serving as a role model for peace, particularly in this environment that has been devastated by the ravages of 30+ years of horrific conflict. I have a number of close Afghan friends and they, probably more than any people I have ever met, want peace for themselves, their families and their country. I am privileged to know them and am inspired by their endurance and resilience. Endless war serves only to enrich those who champion it and it is long past time that it be stopped." --James Stapp
"We know, deep down inside, it's wrong! There's nothing you can say to ever make it right! Killing is killing, no matter how you slice it! And the ones doing all the killing should be locked up, and be forced to watch the world transform from, This evil place they've created, To the wonderful place we should be creating!" --Ronald Richter
"Why must we work to end all war? War keeps us from progressing as a race. We can't reach a point of sustainability with war taking up so much of our time. It attributes to the division of wealth providing greater conflict between classes and it hands over authority to the wealthy class. It makes them richer while the working class is left to die. War need to end because it's a tool used to control the masses with fear. It distracts us from the problems within the social hierarchical systems that have been established. We must end all war because we'll never have peace without it. War is expensive and destroys makes the economy unstable. War is a tool of capital gain, it's marketable and from youth we are encouraged to take and defend our ruling authority without question. There are other ways to solve conflicts. Civilians are the ones who suffer the most damage. War and violence is terrible for you Psyche due to the traumatizing events. And Finally the main reason we should end all war is because it will kill us if we don't." --Jessica Gartner
"While I was always aware that there was a sickness that pervades every social institution I just could not make the connection to myself and this "sickness' until my beautiful child was murdered in the "theater' of "War'. This experience was eviscerating. I was disgorged of this "sickness'. I could see that "war' is just goddamn MEAN. It bears no resemblance to what lives in my heart and mind so why was I able to accept it as a way of life? Why was I able to accept my son being part of a force for death"for entropy? I see it all clearly now, though. There is a deep sickness that pervades all social institutions and these sicknesses have made us mentally "disturbed' -- working out of balance with the gift of life. My granddaughter, Eva, is now four and has no father. She has no protector in this mean world where men prey upon life with a sense of entitlement that desires are to be quenched at all costs. Who will protect my granddaughter now? Through the physical death of my beloved son I have learned that misogyny is the root of warring behavior -- and this thought process, this behavior is just goddamn mean." --Jamie Santos
"Every person who dies is someone's son, dad, mom, brother or sister." --Gaston Locklear
"Nelson Mandela said: "It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible." --John Bonifaz
"Every modern war has had its root in exploitation. The Civil War was fought to decide whether the slaveholders of the South or the capitalists of the North should exploit the West. The Spanish-American War decided that the United States should exploit Cuba." --Larry Egly, Veterans For Peace Chapter 961 Codirector
"Another war will likely lead to the end of the human race." --Lewis Patrie, WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility
"LAW opposes the illegal use of force supports the use of national and international law to settle disputes, prosecute offenders and protect rights." --Gail Davidson, Lawyers against the War
"As a 70 year old woman, I have seen just what the destruction of war has done to my home country and also those we have invaded in the name of democracy! None of this has been done with my consent, so for the rest of my life I want to promote peace." --Katherine Schock
"War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant the seeds for the next violent conflict as the vanquished and their children will usually not accept the outcome." --Bruce Van Voorhis
"War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts." --Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History emeritus, SUNY/Albany
"Because we are being used as pawns in an endless game of bloodletting. One generation has to stop this. Please let it be ours." --Lynne Thomas
"War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation." --Madeline Taylor, Topanga Peace Alliance
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