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“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
Source : Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)
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“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
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“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”
Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers
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“What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.”
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“Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.”
Source : Amilcar Cabral (1979). “Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral”, p.141, NYU Press
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“I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)”
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“As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.”
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“Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?”
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“This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.”
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“Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.”
Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket
