Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"Either war is obsolete, or men are"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present, and the future, the power to bring time to an end"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"Bring them on"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"In a war, everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times, it is just Switzerland, but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Let us not be deceived, we are today in the midst of a cold war"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

Bernard Baruch

"He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

Donald Rumsfeld

"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

Arundhati Roy

"What is more immoral than war?"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

A. J. P. Taylor

"Let the tent be struck"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it"

Craig Bruce, Writer

Craig Bruce

"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict"

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute"

Robert Capa, Photographer

Robert Capa

"There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

Joseph Rotblat

"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

Joseph Rotblat

"The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

Joseph Rotblat

"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers"

Tecumseh, Leader

"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men"

Georges Clemenceau, Leader

Georges Clemenceau

"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

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