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Robert L. Holmes on Veterans Day

born 1935 United States

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It is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons.

On War and Morality (1989)

We will never know whether there is a realistic moral alternative to violence unless we are willing to explore the potential of nonviolent action.

On War and Morality (1989)

To justify going to war...that is to establish jus ad bellum in the first place, requires showing that what one would be doing by waging it is justified.

On War and Morality (1989)

What I mean by saying that war is wrong is not only that it is bad but that it ought not to be waged, that governments ought not to declare and fight wars, societies ought not to provide them with the means by which to do so, and individuals ought not to sanction, support and participate in wars.

On War and Morality (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert L. Holmes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.