Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"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

"Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack"

Sterling Hayden, Actor

"What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?"

George Grosz, Artist

"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea"

Oliver North, Soldier

"The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him"

Wil Wheaton, Actor

"No damn man kills me and lives"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"The mercy caravans are through there, the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before"

Jon Lee Anderson, Journalist

"We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"The troops are therefore empowered, and are in duty bound in this war to use, without mitigation, even against women and children, any means that will lead to success"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans, then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind, to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons"

Mohamed ElBaradei, Scientist

"Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"I ended the war a horse ahead"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"Get there first with the most"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated"

George Grosz, Artist

"Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls"

John Hersey, Writer

"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C"

George Stephanopoulos, Celebrity

"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"

Francis Scott Key, Author

"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"In the future, as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force"

William Blum, Author

"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide"

Hun Sen, Statesman

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