Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"There is no more Palestine. Finished"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

Jerry Falwell

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

Konrad Lorenz

"Our swords shall play the orators for us"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb"

Rene Magritte, Artist

Rene Magritte

"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch"

Jay Leno, Comedian

Jay Leno

"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Now, when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - At the Battle of Copenhagen"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

Horatio Nelson

"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

Horatio Nelson

"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

David Lloyd George

"We are muddled into war"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

David Lloyd George

"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

Ferdinand Foch

"War is a profane thing"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

Norman Schwarzkopf

"The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"War itself is the enemy of the human race"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"In war, there are no winners"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

Harold Pinter

"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies"

Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary

Georges Jacques Danton

"On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

Eldridge Cleaver

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