“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”– Friedrich Durrenmatt Related Quotes “War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”– George Orwell “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”– Barbara Kingsolver “The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.”– Henry A. Kissinger