Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war"

Muammar al-Gaddafi, Leader

"Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings"

Frederick The Great, Royalty

"No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq War"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago"

Colman McCarthy, Activist

"The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

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

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America"

Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman

"Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids"

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

"My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"America is addicted to wars of distraction"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"When you arrive in Hiroshima, you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society"

Murray Rothbard, Economist

"We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country, you have to consider all the consequences"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country"

James Wolfe, Soldier

"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally"

George Pataki, Politician

"I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA, where we did demonstrations at the draft centre, and burned our cards, and made a lot of trouble on campus"

Cheech Marin, Comedian

"The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer"

Thaddeus Stevens, Politician

"If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed, and trained Africans to fight other Africans"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

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