Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"The Iraq War took priority over domestic disaster prevention"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country"

Isaac Yeffet

"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion"

James Reston, Journalist

"We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

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

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"To me, an unnecessary action or shot or casualty was not only waste but sin"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"When we go to war, I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he, Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"If I have any choice, I would prefer Western Troops"

John Buford, Soldier

"Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation"

John Buford, Soldier

"We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed, and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world, where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"We Bosniaks would, for sure, fight for integrity of Bosnia"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

John Paul Jones, Soldier

"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side"

Terry Goodkind, Writer

"Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?"

Roger Wicker, Politician

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